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The Facial animation firm has conceived a new offering for indies and mobile teams. Peter Busch tells Develop what it delivers

Nintendo will for the second year running not hold a press conference at E3. Instead, it will air an E3 video news broadcast that will further detail about the gaming experiences on the way for Nintendo platforms in 2014 and beyond”. The video will go out at 5pm UK time …

Richard Wilson says cost of ratings for multi-platform game releases puts indies and European developers at disadvantage

Nvidia and Ubisoft’s close relationship has led to another graphics card bundle offer. As of today anyone who buys a Nvidia GeForce GTX TITAN, 780 Ti, 780, 770, 760, 690, 680, 670, 660 Ti or 660 graphics card will get a free PC download code for Watch Dogs, which it …

UK paper The Daily Mail has inevitably linked the tragic stabbing of a Leeds schoolteacher to video games. 61-year-old Spanish teacher Ann Maguire was yesterday killed in front of pupils yesterday by a still unnamed 15 year old male student. Police trawling social media accounts of schoolboy, 15, accused of …

Towerfall is the Ouya’s best-selling game, but sales numbers paint a disappointing picture for the Android console. The game’s developer Matt Thorson told Eurogamer that the former Ouya exclusive sold approximately 7,000 copies on the machine, saying: "Being the best game on Ouya isn’t a huge deal, but it is …

Tank Domination creator to announce new US operations within the next few days

Mobile game maker brushes off slow start to the year and says its upcoming titles will drive up its sales

Blizzard’s epically popular PC, Mac and iPad title Hearthstone is unlikely to appear on consoles in the near future. "It’s not something we’re actually looking at right now," Hearthstone production director Jason Chayes told Eurogamer. We feel like we have our hands full in the short term with getting onto …

Over 300 GAME stores will be opening at midnight and early in the morning to hail the launch of Watch Dogs. Ubisoft’s new IP is expected to be the biggest launch of the year so far, and GAME is holding midnight events at most of its stores (full list below), …