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Are you coming along to Interface tomorrow? If so, make sure to check out the intimate Live Stage conference, taking place on the same day The Live Stage – sponsored by Pollen – features talks from Sony, Nintendo and Execution Labs, alongside a live Q&A with Mind Candy. There will …

The upcoming encore to the Guitar Hero franchise has had its first tracklist revealed. Artists including The Rolling Stones, The Killers, Ed Sheeran and Skrillex had been previously announced to be making an appearance in Guitar Hero Live, but hadn’t had any tracks detailed. That’s now changed, with the formerly-revealed …

Puzzles & Dragons developer GungHo Entertainment is bringing GameArts classic RPG Grandia II to Steam. Kotakureports GungHo will give Grandia II the HD remaster treatment, though there’s no mention of a release window as of yet and no word if any Steam features such as achievements will be part of …

Unity has hired former Microsoft executive Elizabeth Brown as its chief people officer. Brown will oversee the full life cycle of Unity Talent,” according to Unity – which includes recruitment, hires, personal development and retention. I’m super excited to be joining Unity at such an exciting time,” Brown said. I …

Steam topped 9.5m concurrent users over the past weekend, setting yet another new record for Valve’s service. The digital distributor was busy as usual last Sunday, at one point surpassing the new milestone by a couple thousand individuals – 9,502,661 total according toGameSpot. Steam reached 9m concurrent usersless than two …

Ubisoft has provided some more information about the latest entry in its Assassin’s Creed series, Syndicate. In a announcement video, the publisher revealed that the title is being developed by Ubisoft Quebec. This is the first Assassin’s Creed game that the Quebec studio has headed up development on, though it …

The strength of Ubisoft’s core brands and the growth of its digital offerings have seen the publisher outperform its financial targets for the last year. According to the firm’s full report for the full 2014-2015 financial year, software sales generated €1.46 billion in FY2014-2015, up by 45 per cent compared …

Former LinkedIn and Microsoft exec Elizabeth Brown to oversee hiring and talent development

Square Enix has reported an increase in sales and income for the year ending March 2015. Net sales were up 8.3 per cent at 168bn, with operating income up 55.8 per cent at 16bn and net income up 49 per cent at nearly 10bn. In isolation, digital entertainment division sales …

Perforce enables cloud-powered cross-platform version control and security features in Unity’s newest engine