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Bandai Namco has for the first time shown off the visual differences between the upcoming next-gen version of Dark Souls II and its last-gen predecessor. Chief among the changes is the implementation of 60fps and 1080p. PC players will be used to this, but console gamers will see a big …

Publisher's chief creative officer says two hours is too long to introduce game mechanics and controls

King and Supercell investors Ben Holmes and Ken Lamb join board of directors

The complexity of modern video games continues to alienate too many potential players, EA’s chief creative officer Richard Hilleman has said. "Our games are actually still too hard to learn," Hilleman said at the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, as reported by GameSpot, when comedian Pete Holmes said that he’d …

Work-for-hire studio hires Dragon Age director and other genre veterans for new project

Lifetime sales for Skylanders surpass 240m as Activision Blizzard posts $4.4bn in revenue for last year

With more than 27 million daily players and viewership numbers that rival national TV broadcasting, League of Legends is undeniably the biggest eSports title in the world. Jason Yeh, head of EU eSports at the title’s developer Riot Games, tells MCV how League got to the top – and how …

Last year’s last-gen Assassin’s Creed title is, as we all expected, making its way onto PC. Assassin’s Creed: Rogue will be arrive on computers on March 10th having previously only been available on PS3 and Xbox 360. Also included in this release will be eye tracking support. The minimum specs …

26 years ago, Kirsty Payne entered the games industry with Codemasters, working alongside Richard and David Darling in the days of Spectrucm, C64 and Atari ST. In amongst a plethora of what appeared to the younger me, serious companies and business suits, the early days of the games industry were …

Activision Blizzard has posted full year net revenue of $4.4bn thanks to the success of four key franchises. The publisher says that multiplayer shooter Destiny and card game Hearthstone between them raked in $850m over the last financial year. Bungie’s shooter now has over 16m registered players while the World …