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Confusion has surrounded yesterday’s release of the Dark Souls 2 Crown Trilogy DLC. The first part of the trio, The Crown of the Sunken King, was released on PC and Xbox 360 yesterday with a PS3 release due to follow today. However, while a 19.99 season pass is available on …

A new League of Legends video called A New Dawn has racked up close to 5m views in just a single day. It features a number of characters from the hit MOBA using powers that players of the game will recognise. The video’s official description states: Day breaks over a …

When Big Fish Games shifted towards casino games, the man behind one of its most successful franchises branched out on his own. Develop finds out more

Battlefield Hardline and Dragon Age: Inquisition delayed

Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has suspended funding for the controversial STALKER successor Areal. Things appeared to be going wrong for developer West Games earlier this week when a string of bizarre events and unusual pledges mysteriously propelled it towards its funding goal. Our Kickstarter was suspended without any warning,” the studio …

Tech based on OpenFL Framework and Haxe

Warwickshire event backing industry's favourite night out, returning to Leamington this October

Tech features screen space ambient occlusion, higher quality depth of field effects and lens dirt

Five games prizes and plenty of opportunities to win for app developers – send in your nominations now

Blizzard has at long last released its single player DLC for card battling title Hearthstone. The first of a planned five parts of Curse of Naxxramas can be downloaded now. It contains a series of boss fights, new cards and a new board. The remaining releases will be released at …