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EA’s long-awaited Star Wars Battlefront will finally be demonstrated to the public for the first time next month. Having previously promised more information this spring, the publisher has said that DICE’s title will feature at the Stars Wars Celebration event in California kicking off on April 16th. We could not …

Just one day after rumours of a rift between Kojima Productions and Konami, the publisher has put out a job ad for a new Metal Gear development team. Assorted translations, including this one on NeoGaf, of a listing on Konami’s Japanese website suggest that the company is looking to recruit …

The studio behind troubled PS4 racer Driveclub has suffered what is understood to be a significant number of layoffs. MCV was told yesterday that staff at the Runcorn developer had been put on notice. Sony has subsequently confirmed to Eurogamer that it has cut a number of jobs, and that …

The Xbox 360 and PS2 versions of Final Fantasy XI will be brought to a close by March 2016, Square Enix has confirmed. Polygon reports that while the PC version of the MMO will remain active, the console release is being shut down around a year from today. Until then, …

The release of Metal Gear Solid 5 could bring about the departure of series creator Hideo Kojima from publisher Konami. GameSpot reports that a fallout” between Kojima Productions and its mother company has led to senior staff having their access to services such as internal email, phone and internet restricted. …

With the rising cultural phenomenon eSports has become, it’s no wonder there is a rush to explain its many (many) facets to the confused uninitiated. The complex world of competitive gaming is hard enough to keep track of when already inside its mile-high walls, so the intention to produce documentaries …

Codemasters might be working on a new entry in its Dirt racing series. The studio put out a job ad today on Twitter (below) which read: ‘Graphics Programmer wanted for a DiRTy little game we’ve been working on’. The full job ad says the developer’s racing studio is expanding and …

3.2m gamers have played Techland’s Dying Light since its launch in January. This is according to an infographic released by the developer. Note that this figure doesn’t represent unit sales, but rather the number of active players. In addition to the 3.2m people who have played the game, fans have …

Perfect World Entertainment has laid off an unknown number of staff, with reports suggesting a significant portion of its workforce has been affected. MMO siteMassively Overpoweredreports the "potentially massive" layoffs were first revealed via a tweet by Ben PerLee, former PR for Perfect World. The original tweet, and a second …

There was a time when everyone was playing Rock Band and Guitar Hero. And then they stopped. All of them. At the same time. The billion-dollar plastic guitar industry vanished overnight. It was a painful time for everyone associated with that genre. But Harmonix, the studio that created both franchises, …