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Ninja Theory’s experimental psychological action title Hellblade has now reached 500k units sold. That figure means the game has proved profitable, validating the studio’s decision to release a shorter, cheaper game than you’d typically find in the genre, but with a level of quality you’d expect from a premium title. …

It seems as if Marvel Heroes will close a month ahead of schedule and that its developer Gazillion has been shut down. The game’s termination was announced last week, at which time it was claimed that it would continue to operate until the end of the year. Now multiple reports, …

Chancellor Phillip Hammond detailed the new incentives and schemes designed to help digital industries in the UK

A development diary looking at the game post-release shows how the studio has made its returns on the game after only three months

The new chairman of the FCC under the Trump administration is set to unveil a new approach that could lead to higher costs

Immortals will forfeit their ECS season four matches, after they were unable to field an eligible roster from their registered lineup. This means the team will finish ECS season four with a win/lose of 18-0, and next season will have to compete in the promotion league next season to try …

Chinese League of Legends pro Li ‘Vasilii’ Wei Jun has been banned from competing until 2020 by Riot Games for gross misconduct. The player was suspended by Riot on October 27 after a domestic violence incident caught on stream audio by Wei Jun. They suspended the player and opened an investigation …

Q-Games wants to make a mobile version of PS3 hit PixelJunk Monsters, and has turned to Kickstarter to do it. As the game will be free-to-play, Kickstarter backers should theoretically still be able to play even without laying down cash – although should not enough people back it, it of …

A new Battlegrounds update is hitting the test server today, and this time the 48-hour window into PUBG’s 1.0 future brings with new weapons, the end of water’s bulletproof reign of terror and many more changes. Let’s go through it, starting with those new guns. You can read along at …

Some players who sunk money into Marvel Heroes since its release only a few months ago are demanding refunds now the game is being shut down. Kotaku reports on the case of a player called EITTurtle who has apparently spent in the region of $400 on the game since July. …