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Games media giant GameSpot has promoted Rob Crossley to UK editor. Crossley joined the firm as news editor in last September after a two-year stint as associate editor at CVG. He is GameSpot’s first UK editor since the departure of Guy Cocker in May 2013. Meanwhile, another CVG alumni – …

Subsystems and Objective-C compiler will help mobile devs bring their titles to new operating system

There’s another game based on The Walking Dead on the way, this time from Starbreeze and 505 Games. Following on from 505’s acquisition of a stake in Starbreeze last month, it will now handle next-gen publishing duties for The Walking Dead from Starbreeze-owned studio Overkill, which is the team behind …

US firm also signs eight year deal to make Britney Spears games

Tools being added to Unity 5 for free, training available to anyone at Build conference

Sony’s latest financials have revealed a bright 12 months for the company’s games business. For the fiscal year ended March 31st, the platform holder reported 14.8 million unit sales for PS4. This is almost double the 7.5 million seen in FY2013, although given that the console was only around for …

Square Enix’s sequel to 2012’s Bravely Default goes straight to No.1 in the Japanese charts, according to market data provided by Famitsu. The RPG game sold 97,220 units in the region, nearly three times the unit sales of this week’s second place, Style Savvy 3. That title was No.1 last …

Developer Jagex has launched a new game today, and is letting gamers play it for free this weekend. Anyone that likes the title, can then buy it for 15% off for a week. The new title is Block N Load, a multiplayer shooter that is available via Steam. The free …

Unity developers will soon have the ability to build games for the HoloLens headset, Microsoft revealed earlier today at its Build developer conference. In a post on Unity’s company blog, lead developer Scott Flynn states that both Personal and Pro editions of Unity will be updated with support for Hololens …

The upcoming worldwide launch of Namco’s RPG Tales of Zestiria appears to be more than just a PS3 release, despite Sony’s last-gen hardware currently being the only confirmed platform for the game. VG247 reports on a listing from Dutch retailer Nedgame, which indicates the game will arrive at Europe shops …