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Free-to-play car-combat MOBA Heavy Metal Machines is to star in its very first university tournament. It will take place in Brazil’s Florianópolis, the home city of developer Hoplon, on November 11th. The tournament will take the form of a college championship at Universidade do Vale do Itajaí. Hoplon has held …

Esports Pro is delighted to announce the first ever Esports Pro 30 Under 30. We work in such a vibrant and rapidly expanding sector, and it’s only right that our brightest talent is given the recognition it deserves. That’s why we’re reaching out to every corner of the European esports …

After nearly a year, voice actors in the SAG-AFTRA have ratified an agreement to end a dispute that had forced many of gaming’s most recognisable voices to stay away from the sector. 90 per cent of those who voted agreed to the deal, which grants actors a bonus of up …

Focus Home Interactive’s boss Cédric Lagarrigue talks about the publisher’s ambitions for Dontnod’s Vampyr and why he’d choose a sequel over DLC for the title. For more on Vampyr, you can also read our interview with Dontnod’s narrative director Stéphane Beauverger. How did you and Dontnod start working on Vampyr and how …

AM General, the manufacturer of the Humvee military vehicle, is taking Activision to court. Reuters reports that AM has accused the publisher of “taking advantage of its goodwill and reputation” by featuring the iconic armoured truck both in its Call of Duty game series and associated licensed books and toys. …

Apple’s long-awaited arrival in the virtual reality market could in fact take the form of an augmented reality headset. Furthermore, the device is apparently already in development and could be shipped as soon as 2020, a new report from Bloomberg claims. The unit will apparently not adopt the model seen …

Publisher Take-Two has told investors that all of its future releases will offer players the chance to buy microtransactions. In an investor call after its latest financial results, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick said: “If we create a robust opportunity and a robust world in which people can play delightfully in …

The Boy Who Lived is going to have another stab at conjuring up a video games sales success potion. Warner Bros has announced not only a new Niantic title in the vein of Pokemon Go, but also some as of yet unspecified console and mobile games, all of which fall …

The data from Unity Analytics opened the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference 2017 showing that in just ten months the popularity of gaming in the country has massively increased

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