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Destiny and Halo: Reach senior gameplay designer Josh Hamrick has announced his departure from Bungie to join Bethesda in an unspecified role. Hamrick – who joined Bungie in 2009 – revealed the news in a series of posts on Twitter earlier today. "Next Friday, after nearly 6 amazing years and …

Tim Cook has criticised the introduction of legislation is some US states that allows people to discriminate based on their religious beliefs. A number of states, including Indiana and Arkansas, have passed laws allowing individuals to cite their religious conviction as justification for a number of behaviours, including the right …

The Resolution Games CEO on how Andy Warhol inspired him to conceive a place in the woods for rising dev stars

GitHub is one of several major firms that has been the victim of cyber attacks over the last few days. We are currently experience the largest DDoS [distributed denial of service] attack in GitHub’s history,” wrote the firm’s systems engineer Jesse Newland in anofficial blog post."Based on reports we’ve received, …

DDoS attack the largest in dev resource’s history

"I used to be thick skinned enough for the random personal attacks"

The European Commission has announced plans that, if passed, will turn the digital video games market on its head. Currently sellers such as Valve (Steam), Sony (PlayStation Network) and Microsoft (Xbox Live) funnel customers through regional portals according to their location. This is done partially for rights reasons but primarily …

Halo 5: Guardians will be hitting Xbox One this October. The latest entry in Microsoft’s blockbuster sci-fi series will be launching worldwide on October 27th. This was revealed in two trailers released by Microsoft. One depicts series hero Master Chief standing above an injured Locke – Halo Nightfall’s main character …

Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin is out this week on PC, but how much it will cost you will very much depend. In the US the new DirectX 11 version of the game, which includes a re-worked version of the title and all of its DLC, will …

Another member of the video games industry has decided to abandon Twitter after growing tired of the abuse being directed toward him and his family. So to be clear. The reason I don’t want to do this twitter anymore is not fans asking for characters or hints or whatever. I …