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Sonic Mania Plus will launch this summer, and Sega also announced a new Sonic animated series

EA and Nintendo carve up the charts between them

Organiser now reworking seat plan to gain extra capacity

Gamescom 2018’s early bird registration just ended and organiser Koelnmesse reported a 13 per cent increase in exhibitor applications year-on-year, as well as a ten per cent increase in the amount of exhibition space booked. Companies from 40 countries have already registered, with 16 country pavilions already confirmed, which is also …

Brian Evans moved straight from Abertay University to a production role at Ubisoft Reflections

New division looks to be taking charge of Azure Cloud for gaming in the short-term with plans for a fully-streamed version of Xbox Game Pass in the future

We went to Manchester to talk to Creative England CEO Caroline Norbury about the organisation’s initiatives to help to grow emerging games businesses, what challenges lie on the way and why narrative matters more and more in games

Interactive Gaming Ventures will work with two to three studios per year, investing between $1m and $5m per project

Small unit tactics

Releasing on "all major formats" in Spring 2019