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Localised IGN websites will launch in France and Brazil early next year. The Ziff Davis-owned games brand has teamed up with Webedia Group to launch in the new territories. Webedia owns entertainment websites AlloCine, AdoroCinema and JeauxVideo. IGN now has 23 international versions of its websites in 17 different languages. …

Episodic game The Prospect will continue storyline of popular US drama

Former film director Josef Fares and the team behind Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons have opened a brand new independent studio. Named Hazelight Studios, the new developer is staffed by many of the people that worked on the popular 2013 co-op game and is already working on a new …

Academic institute will expand its capacity to teach science, technology, engineering and maths

Fullbright working on fresh first-person adventure

Long-serving exec will no longer be publisher's employee, but will retain chairman role

EA’s longterm executive chairman Larry Probst is stepping down from his role on January 1st. Polygon reports that Probst will continue to serve as a non-executive chairman. He’s been at EA since 1984 and has on several occasions stepped up to assume control between the appointment of figureheads such as …

2014 has already been one to forget for Tesco, and the news just keeps getting worse. The retailer has now warned that profits for the year ending February 2015 "will not exceed 1.4bn" – that’s well below the 1.8bn-2.2bn the markets had expected and significantly down on the 3.3bn recorded …

Some of the figures featured in Nintendo’s initial shipment of Amiibo figures will not be restocked, the platform holder has confirmed. We will aim for certain Amiibo to always be available,” the platform holder told Wired. These will be for our most popular characters like Mario and Link. Due to …

Hearthstone’s Goblins vs Gnomes expansion has launched across all platforms. The first expansion for Blizzard’s popular online collectible card game features 120 new cards, and players who long into the game between now and December 19th will pick up three free Goblins vs Gnomes card packs. Beyond that, the expansion …