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Square Enix is expected to announce a number of redundancies from its UK office. The firm is attempting to improve its Western performance, and has told MCV that an undisclosed number of staff in the UK have been placed on consultation. MCV understands multiple PR and sales employees are amongst …

Online games firm hopes to expand new team to 50 developers

Game based around notifications from agents in the field

Upcoming music title Rock Band 4 won’t just work with old Rock Band hardware – it’ll also work with any Guitar Hero gamers may have. That’s according to Harmonix’s Daniel Sussman who told Business Insider: "We’re planning to support everything that we can: That includes all of the old Rock …

Brand communications agency PrettyGreen is the new retained PR agency of Nintendo UK. The company will be in charge of integrated campaign support and Nintendo’s press office. The first title it will be involved with is May’s Wii U shooter Splatoon. Its other clients include Nando’s, Virgin media and John …

A second title dedicated to the upcoming Apple Watch has been unveiled, this time by UK studio Bossa. It’s called Spy Watch and it’s due out alongside the hardware, which is due for release on April 24th. The developer says it features a rich and immersive story” where players head …

NPD’s March 2015 report shows PlayStation 4 on top in a down period for hardware at US retail, while Battlefield: Hardline and Bloodborne duked it out for the top spot in a flourishing software category. While Sony declared victory over Microsoft and Nintendo in hardware, the category was down 21 …

343 Industries and Vanguard Games’ twin-stick shooter Halo: Spartan Strike has launched on Windows PC, Windows 8.1, Windows Phone and – somewhat unexpectedly – iOS. The PC version is available now via Steam, while the Windows 8.1 release can be had on the Windows Store. Meanwhile, mobile editions can be …

Star Wars Battlefront will launch this November, if what fans have unearthed from the source code for the game’s website is anything to go by. Polygon reports on the discovery of the following bit of info hidden in the source code for the news page of the game’s official site: …

Warner Bros walked away the biggest winner from this year’s MCV Awards, claiming three of the night’s most prestigious prizes. WB Games UK was crowned as the top Games Publisher and PR Team, with the firm’s hit title Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor taking the Sales Triumph trophy. Bungie and Activision’s …