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Vivendi executives considered firing Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick during last year’s buyout deal, according to a new report. An exclusive on Bloomberg claims to have obtained multiple emails in which Vivendi’s board discussed the move to dismiss Kotick. The emails are part of a court filing from last month …

Ubisoft has created the world’s first Chief Parkour Officer position to assist in the publisher’s Assassin’s Creed franchise, hiring noteworthy freerunner Michael Frosti” Zernow to fill the new role. According to the publisher, Zernow will be tasked with making sure the parkour portions of titles like the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: …

Critically acclaimed skateboarding game OlliOlli will launch July 22nd on Steam, publisher Devolver Digital has announced. It was reported back in February that UK developer Roll7’s 2D title made a strong enough impression with its initial PS Vita launch to warrant experimenting with other platforms, starting with PC. It’s in …

Australia and New Zealand are both big festival countries, so here's a roundup of the key places you may bring games to build an audience down under.

We speak with Bill McIntosh, owner and founder of Torus Games, which turns 20 this year and is one of Australia's oldest dev studios.

The multiplayer component of The Last of Us: Remastered will have the same content alterations in Europe as seen in the PS3 version. The original game featured less gore than the US release in an effort to appease censors in some of Europe’s more sensitive regions. These changes were made …

UK retailer GAME says it has sold out all of its available Destiny Ghost Edition units for Xbox One. The same version of PS4 is described as running out”. Does this point to greater popularity for the title on Xbox One? Its many associations with PlayStation will certainly have Sony …

Chris Wright, CTO at analytics firm DeltaDNA, explains why embracing freemium games could propel PlayStation ahead of Xbox

We speak to X-TECH founder Arman Atoyan about how full-body motion control works on smartphones and tablets

PS4 owners will have the option of locking The Last of Us: Remastered to 30fps, developer Naughty Dog has said. Community and PR bod Arne Meyer told an audience at an event attended by Eurogamer Spain that players will be free to toggle between an unlocked 60fps and a locked …