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Bandai Namco has announced a collaborative Pac-Man project in association with Austrian electronic arts festival Ars Electronica. The iconic video game character was one of the key attractions at last month’s festival, where he appeared in a number of prototype and experimental experiences designed to test possible new areas for …

A blog on Epic's site details the custom improvements made to the Unreal Engine to handle the Battle Royale mode

Indie developers looking for public relations representation have plenty of agencies to choose from. Renaissance PR's Stefano Petrullo has some sound advice for devs looking to interact with the media

Mortal Kombat fan-favourite Raiden has arrived in Injustice 2, with the Lightning god bringing some of his special brand of snap, crackle and pop to the superhero bash ‘em up. Raiden is the second Mortal Kombat mainstay to hop from Mortal Kombat to fellow NetherRealm Studios fighter Injustice 2, although …

In online games narrative often comes secondary to gameplay, but Jem Alexander argues that it’s Destiny 2’s strength of story and world building that keeps its claws in him and encourages cooperative play

Swedish esports oufit GODSENT have signed Niko ‘naSu’ Kovanen as the new head coach for their Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team. He replaces Graham ‘messioso’ Pitt who has been handling the role in the interim this summer, who will be returning to a position with RFRSH Entertainment on the organisational side, …

Gfinity’s Elite Series has a new franchise lead, Joel Holmes-Darby. Holmes-Darby is currently working as a management consultant at auditors KPMG, and will resign from this position in addition to his role as managing director of esports outside exceL Esports, who are currently an active participant in Gfinity’s Elite Series. …

The UK’s biggest school-based esports tournament, the Digital Schoolhouse National Schools Esports Tournament, is returning for a second year as part of 2018’s London Games Festival. Ukie has today announce that the tournament, powered by PlayStation, will be returning as part of the capital’s annual celebration of all things games …

September was a heavy month in games, marking the beginning of Q4 and providing a much needed boost to retail. Month-on-month, the market was up 156 per cent in units and 290 per cent in value. Compared to September last year, the market had a healthy 16 per cent growth …

As well as announcing it had saved social VR start-up AltSpaceVR, Microsoft also announced that all Windows Mixed Reality headsets are now available for pre-order at its MR event last night – and that includes Samsung’s newly unveiled HMD Odyssey headset. Available for $499.99 on November 6th in the US, …