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Watch out Microsoft and Sony, one of China’s biggest games companies will launch its first console in Europe in early 2016. Snail Games is China’s fifth largest mobile phone service provider and the firm behind hit MMO Age of Wushu, which attracts over 5.5m monthly players. Now, the company is …

Obsidian Entertainment reveals further impact of THQ closure and subsequent deal with Ubisoft

This week’s issue of MCV is an eSports special, featuring interviews and insight from around that sector of the industry. Riot Game’s EU eSports boss Jason Yeh tells us how League of Legends became the world’s top eSports game and how it plans on staying there. Also Alex ‘Xpecial’ Chu …

Conference returns to Britain's South Coast for a tenth year

Before joining the games sector, Jo Bartlett worked in PR for galleries, film festivals and DVD releases. She moved to Jackie Cooper PR working on PlayStation’s sponsorship and cultural projects, which saw her ‘hooked’ on the games industry. She continued across various agencies working on PlayStation’s PR activities, as well …

South Park: The Stick of Truth developer Obsidian Entertainment is exploring the possibility of creating new content for the game, but it doesn’t appear the odds are in the studio’s favor. In an interview with Polygon, Obsidian head Feargus Urquhart explained how development priorities changed for the team during the …

Bossa Studio’s surgical sim and YouTube darling Surgeon Simulator has sold more than 2m copies across all platforms. The game jam entry debuted commercially on PC, Mac and Linux in 2013, and has launched on iOS, Android and PS4 platforms over the last year or so as well. "Thanks to …

Gearbox’s next major Borderlands release will bypass PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms for their new-gen counterparts, according to publisher 2K. 2K president Karl Slatoff’s statement comes in the wake of yesterday’s Take-Two financial report: Looking further ahead, we have robust long-term pipeline of titles in development, including ground-breaking new intellectual …

Empathy in games, open world design and user interfaces amongst the hundreds of topics covered in San Francisco this March

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