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Following the success of Alien: Isolation, UK studio Creative Assembly is already at work on another triple-A title for PS4, Xbox One and PC – and it’s hiring. The developer is best known for PC-based strategy series Total War, but last year upped the ante for its console team with …

Battery-powered masks emits scents to tie in with VR experience

A close-up look at the latest contender in VR

11 bit Studios has teamed up with the War Child Charity for a DLC giveaway. Owners of indie hit This War of Mine are now able to buy the War Child Charity DLC for either 79p, 6.99 or 14.99. 100 per cent of the money raised will go to the …

Graphics card maker Nvidia has teamed up with CD Projekt for a new game giveaway. Those who buy either a GeForce GTX 980, 970 or 960 graphics cards, or a GTX 970M or above notebook, will for a limited period also get a free copy of upcoming RPG The Witcher …

Studio seeking online/multiplayer programmer and graphics/engine programmer

Disney Interactive's Matt Carroll discusses the firm's new funding initiative for games studios and tech start-ups

The PS4 and PS3 versions of Helldivers suffer from a bug that wipes a user’s save data should their controller run out of battery mid-game. Fortunately, developer Arrowhead has identified the cause and is working on a fix for the quite unique bug. We found an issue related to the …

Annual initiative seeking narrative-led video games holding free London workshop tomorrow

Steam owner Valve has said that it must improve the way in which it communicates with its passionate fan base. While companies such as Microsoft have enjoyed great success recently by opening up its channels of communication with the Xbox fan base, Valve has typically taken a more Apple-like approach, …