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Sea of Thieves will be first title to benefit from potentially large extra audience

Government backed £5m fund opens its doors for a fourth round and includes new ‘pitch development programme’

Former professional wrestler John Cena, who is now pursuing an acting career, is allegedly in talks to star in a film adaptation of cult games franchise Duke Nukem. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cena is currently in negotiations for a film set up by Paramount and produced by Platinum Dunes, …

Games industry veteran Phil Harrison is joining Google, taking up the role of vice president and general manager at the monolithic search giant’s California headquarters. Harrison is best known for a 15 year tenure as head of Sony’s network of game studios, in addition to three years as a senior …

New head of Minecraft at Microsoft Helen Chiang revealed that the sandbox hit has reached a new milestone last December, with now 74m players returning to the game every month, which is more than half of all the players who own a copy of the title. Minecraft has sold 144m …