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Retail giant opens 70 positions across its game development teams

Several members of Driveclub and Motorstorm developer Evolution Studios have departed in order to set up their own venture. The new company Secret Sorcery is based in St Helens in the North West of England, and will be focused entirely on virtual reality games, according toGamesIndustry. The team is led …

Fire TV looks as if it may not be the final frontier for Amazon Game Studios. A job listing from the company on Gamasutra suggests that the developer is working on a new PC title. The team is made of former Portal, World of Warcraft and BioShock creators, and we’re …

Secret Sorcery now hiring, will show off early work to industry partners at E3 next week

Discover the latest developments in motion capture and how CD Projekt made The Witcher 3 in the new issue, out now

EA Mobile has said that mobile title SimCity BuildIt has become the most played title in the series’ 26-year long history. BuildIt, which is a reinterpretation of the first game re-worked for mobiles, was released in December last year – since when nearly 40m people have played the game. Those …

It seems the UK remains bewitched by Bandai Namco’s latest effort. The Witcher 3 was once again the biggest-selling game of last week, according to the latest UK retail charts from Ukie and GfK Chart-Track. This is despite the title, which saw the largest game launch of 2015 upon release, …

A video claiming to reveal the first concrete details of Dark Souls 3 has hit the internet. It comes from The Know. Eagle-eyed games enthusiasts will recognise them as the source of a recent report claiming that Microsoft had acquired the cancelled Silent Hills from Konami for billions” of dollars. …

The fifth annual Interntaional Dota 2 Championships has pulled together a record-setting prize pool ahead of the event this August. The company initially announced a prize pool of $1.6m in April, which climbed to over $5.5m in a matter of days thanks to sales of the game’s latest virtual Compendium …

Bad Juju – the parent company of digital game distribution network Desura and game bundle seller Indie Royale – has filed for bankruptcy. Speaking withGamasutra, Bad Juju’s head of developer relations Lisa Morrison expressed her surprise regarding the news. I asked Tony [Novak, CEO of Bad Juju] for confirmation and …