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Square Enix has withdrawn the Mac version of Final Fantasy XIV after it launched on June 23rd with a number of serious problems, chief of which being pretty poor performance on even the beefiest of Macs. It has admitted the minimum specs it previously released were inaccurate and not sufficient …

DreamHack, the originally Swedish LAN party that has evolved into a premiere stop on the eSports calendar, is coming to London’s Copper Box in September. The weekend of the 19-20 September marks the first time DreamHack has set foot in the UK, making the country the seventh outside of their …

Deal could see further $5m investment in future

The recruitment specialist tells us why it's backing this year's awards

The number of UK game studio closures fell by 30 per cent in 2014 compared to 2013, according to new research from TIGA. Its findings revealed that there were 75 closures last year, compared to 107 during the year prior. The number of start-ups has fallen however. 99 games companies …

YouTube star PewDiePie continues to ascend to new financial heights, doubling his earnings in the last year. A report from Swedish newspaper Expressen, as spotted by Neogaf and reported by Destructoid, says that Felix Kjellberg’s company PewDiePie Productions made in excess of $7.45m in 2014. Last year it was reported …

Overall studio headcount increased by ten per cent

The Caped Crusader is once again perched on top of the GfK Chart-Track Top 40. Batman: Arkham Knight manages this in spite of a 74 per cent decrease in sales week-on-week. And it continues to be a good few weeks for Warner Bros – not only does it have the …

Online retailer Amazon is to celebrate its 20th birthday on July 15th with what it promises to be a massive sale. Called ‘Prime Day’, the promotion is described as a global shopping event” and will apparently have more deals than Black Friday”. However, the catch is that it will only …

South Africa’s games industry is increasingly dominated by digital titles from other countries – but, despite this, the local market is growing. Local games organisation Make Games South Africa (MGSA) estimates that South Africa consumers spend 2.2 billion Rand (0.1bn) on games each year, primarily on mobile. Console is the …