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

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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 …

Studio number three in our series of developer profiles is N3V Games, formerly known as Auran, creators of Dark Reign.

Riot Games is attempting to crack down on the extreme” toxic behavior that has plagued the online play of the studio’s popular MOBA League of Legends for years. Riot’s lead designer of social systems Jeffrey Lin took to Twitter to announce the news, then later appeared on a Reddit post …

The average salary for game developers saw a year-on-year decrease of 2 per cent in 2013, according to the latest Game Developer Salary Survey. Gamasutra’s research found that professionals working in audio made a higher salary than all other disciplines, with professionals making an annual average of $95,682 USD. Programmers …