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Twitch has signed on as the official live stream partner for this year’s London Games Conference. The sixth outing for the event returns in just over two weeks’ time on Wednesday November 19th, and will take place at 1 Wimpole Street in London. This year’s proceedings will focus on how …

Former Eidos chairman and Creative Skillset Games Council chair Ian Livingstone CBE on why the industry workforce needs to speak out about their skills and training needs

PS4 owners in Germany have discovered that their Share Play experience on PS4 is more restricted than in other territories. Videogamer reports that when in Germany Share Play can only be instigated with other German players. Those using the service to access a PEGI 16+ rated title are also required …

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare could yet outsell its predecessor Ghosts, the CEO of Activision Publishing Eric Hirshberg has said. Games Industry reports that Hirshberg claims that the publisher’s internal metrics show that purchase intent [is] well above last year” and that engagement with the brand in social media channels …

Revolution 60 developer also sets up legal fund to defend women against character assassination

Some users who chose to buy the latest Call of Duty via either PSN or XBL are experiencing problems getting the game up and running on their machines. Reports of a problem first arose amongst PlayStation users who had pre-ordered and pre-loaded the game, with Sony acknowledging the issue and …

Scottish outfit aims to expand business across North America and Europe

Assassin's Creed prepares to drop a Marvel 'Phase Two' style change-up on us with Unity, but its final current-gen installation is every bit as big as its contemporaries

2K Games has announced the Evolve alpha is now available for PlayStation 4 owners to participate in. The event arrived on schedule for Xbox One and Windows PC versions of the upcoming game, but was postponed on PS4 due to firmware issues relating to Sony’s 2.00 update for the console. …

Nordic Games has acquired one of defunct publisher THQ’s last remaining intellectual properties, de Blob. Gamasutra reports on the purchase, which follows Nordic acquiring the rights to publish games under the THQ name and trademark earlier this year. "It was in one of the lots, but we did not acquire …