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Bohemia Interactive has outlined its forward plans for DayZ, indicating that the game won’t exit Steam Early Access until the first half of 2016. The former Arma mod entered Early Access in December 2013 but is not even expected to enter its beta phase until Q4 2015. Furthermore, the price …

A new iteration of Metal Gear Online will be debuted at next week’s The Game Awards in Las Vegas. The game will be shown off by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, according to the event’s producer Geoff Keighley on Twitter. Metal Gear Solid 5 was also unveiled at one of …

The technical troubles that have plagued Assassin’s Creed: Unity have led to publisher Ubisoft scrapping future sales of the game’s lucrative Season Pass. The Pass is no longer available and those who have already purchased it are being offered a free game from the following selection – The Crew, Far …

The creators of Spec Ops: The Line and This War of Mine, as well as Malcolm Ryan from Macquarie University and Jose Zagal of the Videogames Ethics Reader teamed up to discuss the ethics of war in video games

We must get our house in order around diversity, urges Shahid Ahmad at BFI event

A panel held at the first BFI Video Games Day has called on the games industry to foster more diversity in the sector, or risk being overrun by hostility. Discussing diversity, culture and representation,Mitu Khandaker-Kokoris, developer at The Tiniest Shark;Shahid Ahmad, strategic content, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and video game …

Publisher EA has yet again been awarded top marks for its corporate equality culture. It’s the third year in a row that EA has scored a 100/100 in the annual Corporate Equality Index, which rates businesses based on their corporate policies and practices pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender …

Ian Livingstone, Charles Cecil and others share expert tips for devs seeking funding

Gamevil has acquired South Korean mobile studio Waplesoft. The mobile publisher picked up the dev for an undisclosed amount, and has already announced the first game to be released under the partnership: Elune Saga, an RPG and card collection title. Gamevil acquired multiple mobile developers last year, andopened a new …

The creator of Broken Sword and CEO of Revolution has warned that crowdfunding platform Kickstarter will suffer ‘catastrophic’ game funding failures within the next year. Charles Cecil was speaking as part of a panel on game funding at the BFI Video Games Day. Cecil, who utilised the crowdfunding platform to …