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Visceral Games has suffered a small number of layoffs as the studio’s focus shifts to new projects. We made a small staffing change in our Visceral studio today to support the needs of the studio’s two currently development priorities: content for Battlefield Hardline Premium and an unannounced Star Wars project,” …

Ubisoft has confirmed that The Division will not be released this year as previously planned. Instead, the game is now scheduled to be released some time between January and March of 2016. "It is never an easy decision to move launch dates, but we are committed to make decisions that …

Mobile giant cancels all projects to focus on its biggest franchises

Publisher Ubisoft has very publicly put its hands in the air and admitted that the fierce reception that greeted last year’s Assassin’s Creed: Unity really hurt its workers. The game managed 70 per cent on Metacritic, which is the lowest of any main game in the series. More worrying however …

The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint against Sony and GAME over how last year’s 20th Anniversary PS4 competition was conducted. The ASA says that six complainants alleged that the competition’s rules had been breached, and were further aggrieved that the names of the winners had not allegedly been …

Battlefield Hardline studio losses staff members as team focuses on DLC and Star Wars

The third annual MCV Pacific Awards took place last week, with the publication honouring the best of the Pacific games industry has to offer. 227 members of the industry to honour the winners of the 16 categories over the night. EA took away the Publisher of the Year prize, while …

Intel Developer Blog: Learn how to use Phaser with this simple but comprehensive tutorial

Just one week remains to enter the Games 5s five-a-side tournament. Teams from around the industry will be coming together at the Barnet Power League to compete over the much sought-after winner’s cup. Last year’s winners Testology have already entered to defend their prize, while Rockstar Games, Exertis UK, Sports …

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