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Indie retail continues to flourish in Austria, as the country’s hypermarkets fail to make a significant dent in the games retail space. Additionally, the two largest grocery retailers in the country – Rewe International and Spar sterreichische Warenhandels – both have a minimal games offering, allowing specialist and independent games …

Mojang’s runaway success Minecraft continues to be incredibly popular on YouTube. Videos featuring the title were viewed 3,900m times, with 99 per cent of these being fan-made content. Minecraft videos formed 34 per cent of the Top 20 franchises. That’s according to a report released by research firm Newzoo and …

For more than two decades, Team 17 has helped to define the UK development sector. Now, it plans to redefine what it means to be a games publisher. Following her recognition as Person of the Year at 2015’s MCV Awards, MD Debbie Bestwick tells MCV more Team 17 remains one …

Former Mass Effect producer to focus on HoloLens

Take-Two has announced fourth quarter and full-year results for its most recently concluded fiscal year, revealing Grand Theft Auto V has shipped 52m units globally. Along with GTA V, the firm’s Q4 2015 benefited from Grand Theft Auto Online, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection, Evolve and NBA 2K15. In a subsequent …

Ex-BioWare executive producer Casey Hudson has joined Microsoft Studios in the role of creative director. Hudson has begun work at Microsoft’s offices in Redmond, Washington, where he’ll focus on development of games and experience for the firm’s HoloLens headset. The industry vet spent over a decade and half overseeing the …

Bethesda has released a teaser video for the new Doom game originally announced by developer id Software at last year’s QuakeCon. The video shows just a few seconds of gameplay and confirms that Doom will be unveiled at Bethesda’s E3 Showcase on June 14th. The game has emerged over the …

It appears that the upcoming God of War 3 Remastered will be getting its own PlayStation 4 hardware bundle. That’s according to Videogamer, who spotted a listing for the aforementioned bundle on Amazon France. The bundle includes a 500GB PS4, as well as a physical copy of God of War …

PC sci-fi strategy title Civilization Beyond Earth is to set sail on alien seas later this year with a new add-on. Rising Tide adds a host of aquatic-based gameplay, including the ability to construct floating bases on top of water and drill down into new resources below the ocean floor. …

Last year, Oxford-based physics teacher Nicholas Spargo quit his job to work full time on JRPG passion project, Melancholy Republic. He isn’t your typical indie developer. In fact, he had no experience of games development and even less of coding. I haven’t done a course in it or anything,” says …