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Stig Asmussen named game director at Titanfall developer

Kinect is listening… and obeying the commands of Breaking Bad’s Jesse Pinkman. A UK TV ad for Xbox One has reportedly been causing some users’ Xbox One consoles to turn on by themselves. It seems to happen at the moment Aaron Paul says ‘Xbox On’ to turn on his machine. …

Ex-God of War creative director Stig Asmussen has joined Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment, studio co-founder Vince Zampella has confirmed. Speaking with Polygon, Zampella stated the company is super excited” to have Asmussen onboard. The industry veteran left Sony Santa Monica in March after 11 years with the studio. Asmussen himself …

E3 will return to the Los Angeles Convention Center in 2015, with the ESA announcing the expo will run June 16th-18th. The dates fall in line with the usual Tuesday-Thursday run for the show floor, meaning Monday June 15th will almost certainly be the big press briefing day for the …

The voice behind lead protagonist Nathan Drake says Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End could be the series’ last. In an interview with IGN, Nolan North – the man behind lead character Nathan Drake – has given the biggest clue yet that Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End could be the final …

SteamOS has been dropped from Alienware’s upcoming mini gaming PC range in favour of Windows. The Steam Box will launch at the end of this year with a $550 price tag. But absent from the device are both the Steam OS and controller. Alienware will instead ship its offering with …

Nintendo has revealed some more projects being worked on by development legend Shigeru Miyamoto. Two games were shown off at Nintendo’s Treehouse Live event – Project Giant Robot and Project Guard. The first sees gamers playing as – you guessed it – giant robots and fighting one another. Project Guard …

Nintendo has revealed that Monolith Soft’s Wii U title X is now called Xenoblade Chronicles X. The game has been under the name X since it was first announced in January 2013 as part of a Nintendo Direct. The open world RPG title sees mankind caught in the middle of …

RuneScape's community head Jane Ryan on how to keep players coming back to your game

Preloaded games designer Catherine Goode discusses the importance of letting players associate with their avatars