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Charity speedrunning company Games Done Quick has set a new funding record, raising $2.26m for chosen charity the Prevent Cancer Foundation with their first event of the year, Awesome Games Done Quick 2018. The outfit runs two events a year, with Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) running during the winter …

CD Projekt Red’s upcoming game has been rumoured to be making an appearance at E3 2018. The rumour comes from polish gaming site www.gry-online.pl but is apparently drawn from two sources and sounds pretty credible. The much-awaited game was announced way back in 2012 with a scintillating teaser trailer being …

It looks like Netflix won’t be coming to Switch anytime soon. A Twitter user asked the burning question to Netflix’s customer service account, with @Netflixhelps answering: “There are currently no plans for Netflix on Nintendo Switch.” The tweet was promptly deleted, but you can see a screenshot below (thanks Polygon): …

Polygon has commissioned and published a debate between Amy Hennig (recently at Visceral Games of course) and Sean Vanaman (from Firewatch developer Santo Campo) as part of its 2017 Year in Review series. It’s a lengthy piece with lots to take from it but Hennig’s view of modern games development, …

A tweet from Aaron Greenberg, head of xbox marketing at Microsoft, has revealed an unexpected ordering of console hardware sales in the US in December. According to data that he had seen from NPD – but which is yet to be released. December is a big month for console sales …

Famitsu released its yearly report on the Japanese games market, which saw growth in both software and hardware sales in 2017 for the first time since 2006. Hardware sales reached ¥202bn (£1.33bn) in 2017, a 72.9 per cent increase compared to 2016’s ¥117bn (£0.77bn). 7.6m consoles were shifted in 2017 …

Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls developer Quantic Dream has been under fire since multiple allegations of inappropriate behaviour have been reported by three different French publications yesterday (January 14th). Le Monde, Mediapart and Canard PC reported that over a dozen of current and former employees (interviewed by Le Monde) …

The biggest selling games of last year have been revealed by GfK – and unsurprising it’s FIFA 18 that comes out on top once again. We did our own pre-emptive tally back in mid-December, which came to the same conclusion, though there has been some movement further down the Top …

Ceremony takes place in Las Vegas on February 22

Major updates and changes coming to systems and mechanics across the game.