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Future UK has appointed former tech and games boss Nial Ferguson as its new managing director. Media Week reports that the appointment of Ferguson, who was made managing director of its games, technology and film divisions in July 2012, is said to be the next stage of the reorganisation of …

Marc Merrill hits back at suggestions the free-to-play firm is milking its players for money

As is now clearly apparent, AMD’s supposedly game-changing PC API Mantle has missed its 2013 release. Mantle is a Direct X alternative that will allow developers to more directly access PC AMD hardware, offering improved levels of performance for components such as AMD’s Radeon graphics cards. Mantle was initially supposed …

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Only seven individual console titles scored 90 per cent or higher on Metacritic in 2013 – by far” the lowest number in a single year since the last-gen consoles arrived. When PC and handheld games are added into the mix the total reaches 18, matching 2012. PlayStation formats were the …

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VP of development James Macauley assumes role as acting chief executive

Hello Games’ Guildford office was flooded during the Christmas holidays after torrential rain stormed the town. The nearby riverbank broke, leading to what the studio described as a "biblical amount" of water pouring in through the windows. Tweeting on Christmas Eve, the Joe Danger and No Man’s Sky developer said …

A disc-less Xbox One was at one stage very much a possibility. That’s the admission from Microsoft Studios boss Phil Spencer, who told OXM that a real discussion” took place regarding whether the company could get away” with a purely digital-only machine. The decision to stick with discs was made …