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New IPs from Blizzard are quite a rarity, so there was much excitement when Blizzard announced a brand new shooter at Blizzcon at the weekend. Boasting some highly stylised graphics and a rich roster of characters, Overwatch champions accessibility and fun over everything else as six-player teams compete against one …

Print and digital editions out now, also includes an interview with Upper One Games and and a look at the importance of back-end tech

The UK games retail charts will not be available until this afternoon, MCV can reveal. It has been a big week for games retail with the launch of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare arriving on Tuesday (or was it Monday?) last week. So we’re all on tenterhooks to discover just …

Day For Night Games will "fight like hell" to find another way to develop and release surreal title

Frontier Developments has at last confirmed a release date for the PC version of Elite: Dangerous. Eurogamer reports that the launch version of the game will be made available on December 16th. The game has of course been available for some time now in assorted alpha and beta forms, but …

"It's not right," says WoW studio president during Blizzcon 2014

The president and co-founder of Blizzard has become the highest profile games industry figure to speak out against online harassment. Mike Morhaime dedicated a part of his Blizzcon 2014 opening ceremony speech to slam GamerGaters and urge people to redouble their efforts in trying to promote a friendlier, more welcoming …

Ubisoft will not be releasing the likes of Assassin’s Creed Unity and Far Cry 4 on Steam globally. That’s according to PCGamesN, who reports that the firm pulled all of its upcoming releases from Steam worldwide last night. Earlier this week it was revealed that the publisher wouldn’t be releasing …

As an important part of the games industry, the QA and localisation sphere is subject to the same changes that the entire sector is experiencing. For example, the shift in the ways that games are distributed these days has been a challenge for the way QA firms operate. Where before …

Over the last two years we have seen a host of new mobile and online gaming properties enter the games and consoles ad market. As we approach the busy Christmas retail period and forthcoming launches of triple-A titles, it is a good time to reflect upon how the overall media …