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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

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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 …

Silicon Studio on a post-processing effects tool for games designed to rival the quality of Hollywood blockbusters

Microsoft has confirmed that it shipped 1.1m combined units of the Xbox One and Xbox 360 in the three months ending June 30th. Crucially, what isn’t known are the precise numbers for Xbox One, nor how many of those units were actually sold. In the corresponding quarter last year prior …

EA has taken the surprising step of pushing back its next Battlefield title from its traditional pre-Christmas release. Battlefield Hardline will now release in early 2015” due to changes that will be implemented following feedback from the recent beta. The more we thought about these ideas, the more we knew …