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The open multiplayer beta run for Battlefield Hardline kicks off next week, EA has announced. The open beta period will begin February 3rd and conclude February 8th. Those dates are good across all platforms hosting the event: PC, PS3, PS4 Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The pre-release content will include …

Evolve publisher 2K has announced the release of Evolve: Hunter’s Quest, a spin-off and companion app to the upcoming FPS. The puzzle game the app centers around is a match-3 type where clearing groups of tiles and creating combos results in powering up Evolve’s Hunters in their fight against various …

Users of Valve’s modding storefront Steam Workshop have made a total of $57m between them since it went live in 2011. The income has been spread across 1,500+ creators, who themselves stem from 75 countires. Valve has also announced that curated Workshops will no longer be limited to first party …

The creator of Nintendo’s Smash Bros series may abandon games development following the stress of producing the latest instalment for Wii U. Writing inFamitsu– spotted byKotaku– Masahiro Sakurai responded to various fan letters, including one that sympathised with how worn out he had previously appeared when discussing how difficult development …

But issues remain that may cause delays for some developers

Streaming video service Twitch continues to boom, with monthly viewer numbers reaching 100m in 2014. All of which came from 1.5 unique broadcasters. Those numbers are up from 45m monthlies and 90k broadcasters in 2013. Viewers throughout 2014 watched 16bn minutes of footage, with a peak of 1m concurrent viewers …

Mashiro Sakurai says he doubts he'll be able to continue making games under current working conditions

Two of May’s biggest films are getting the LEGO game treatment. Warner Bros has announced both LEGO Jurassic World and LEGO Marvel’s Avengers, which will tie in with the release of Jurassic World and Avengers: Age of Ultron. The Jurassic Park title will follow the plot of not only the …

The producer of Revelations 2 has said he is confident that the team working on Resident Evil 7 will produce something good enough to dispel the nightmares of Resident Evil 6. "Unfortunately we work on Revelations and that’s kind of it. We don’t really have a window into whatever else …

The Lumines series has swapped ownership and is on track for a new entry on iOS. Gematsu reports that Mobcast and Enhance Games have acquired both the Lumines and Meteos properties from previous owner Q Entertainment. Enhance is owned by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, formerly of Q Entertainment and the creator of …