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PC owners who want to see upcoming RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt running at its best will need a beefy system to play it on. The game’s recommended system requirements list either a multithreaded Intel Core i7 3770 3.4GHz or eight-core AMD FX-8350 4GHz CPU. The GPU will need …

CG action serves as a prelude to upcoming eSports tournament for Tencent-backed title

The maker of smartphone hit Monument Valley has said that premium gaming lives on, despite the pressures of free-to-play and piracy. Studio Ustwo yesterday revealed that 95 per cent of installations of the game on Android were not paid for and 60 per cent on iOS. We’ve had this for …

New Year, New Job 2015: Get a job at the Finnish mobile game developer

The University of Pikeville in Kentucky is offering 20 scholarships for top League of Legends players this autumn. PC Gamer reports that Pikeville isn’t the first to offer this – Chicago institution Robert Morris did the same last year. An extensive college network, called the Collegiate StarLeague, is already established …

PlayStation owners are once again today experiencing trouble accessing PSN. We’re aware that some players are seeing drops on PSN,” the official PlayStation Twitter feed said. Engineers are on the case and investigating.” Both PSN and Xbox Live were rocked by a prolonged stint of downtime over Christmas, leading to …

Quintuplet working on five original games

Austin studio reboots MOBA development, planning full campaign and targeting 2017 release

Sales for the 14 weeks ending January 3rd were down 1.7 per cent like-for-like at Sainsbury’s. That’s despite the week immediately before Christmas breaking records for the retailer, with 29.5m customer transactions. It was also its biggest Christmas online with 110k orders being delivered in the three days leading to …

Valve expanding presence at GDC