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Yogscast, the YouTube and livestream firm based in Bristol, raised a stunning £3.8m for charity with its annual ‘Jingle Jam’ livestream marathon in December. The event has now been running for six year, raising a total of £8.3m in total, with the festive event snowballing in size in recent years. …

Nintendo has announced that their Switch console, the portable/console hybrid that launched in March, is the fastest selling console ever in the United States, beating the sales of their Wii console, which exploded in popularity in the U.S upon launch. This comes from Business Wire, who put the sales of …

The latest data from ISFE and Ipsos Connect’s GameTrack consumer survey confirmed players’ appetite for retro gaming.  Having interviewed gamers from the UK, Germany, France and Spain, 49 per cent of them told Ipsos Connect that they like to go back to games they played when they were younger (as reported …

Capcom is pulling out all the stops for the lunch, sorry that should be launch, of Monster Hunter: World. Capcom’s UK team, working with PR agency Hope and Glory, is opening a free BBQ shack near London’s Southbank to mark the launch of the game – conveniently placing it just …

Mad Catz is dead, long live Mad Catz. The third party peripheral giant used up all nine lives and died in March last year, but is due to return under new management, showing a collection of products at CES 2018 next week ahead of a full relaunch. Mad Catz was …

In this series of articles from Sumo Digital, the UK studio opens its doors to show us what they do and how you can get involved.

Additional resources available for the asset marketplace allows more stringent review of potential copyrighted content

The Independent Games Festival (IGF) has unveiled the list of finalists for its 20th awards ceremony, taking place on March 21st during GDC. They are seven prizes up of grabs: Excellence in Visual Art, Audio, Design and Narrative, the Nuovo Award (which is “given to the game title that makes the …