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After one of the longest development cycles of this generation, you might have forgiven game director Hajime Tabata for taking a well-earned rest when Final Fantasy XV came out last November. After all, not only did the game shift a staggering 5m units during its first day on shelves around the …

The Mobile Games Forum is rebranding to Gamesforum, event organiser Osney Media has announced, and will return to central London next year with its first cross-platform b2b event on January 24th-25th. Hosted at County Hall, Westminster, the conference will bring together 600 attendees from across the PC, console and mobile …

The mobile games businness event team will hold its first event in London in January 2018

Hand tracking company Leap Motion has opened a new design reserach studio in London, the firm has announced. Heading up the studio is VR and AR filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda, who assumes the role of VP of design and global creative director.  The news comes just three months after the company revealed …

Konami has announced it has become an official partner of Arsenal Football Club. The new agreement will extend Konami’s previous access to the club, where it appeared as a licensed club in PES 2017 complete with its official insignia, and allow the company to perfectly recreate the team in this …

Today is Mental Health Day, which aims to raise awareness about mental health issues across the world. To help with this objective, developer Ninja Theory will donate all proceeds from the sale of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice to UK charity Rethink today (October 10th).  This was announced by the studio in a blog post, …

The developer will donate all proceeds from sales today (Tuesday 10th October) to UK charity Rethink

An immersive theatre company is using video games to blur the lines between digital and real, transport school children into a mythical world and teach them a little maths along the way. Jem Alexander finds out more

The VR and AR motion tracking company will be working with award winning film maker Keiichi Matsuda

Fnatic have announced a strategic partnership with GamingZone Entertainment, the producers of reality TV show GAMERZ, that will see team members that win the GAMERZ show being placed on Fnatic’s CS:GO Academy team.  The first series of the show took place earlier this year, and was patchy but promising, although …