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Ukie has announced its new board of directors for 2017-18, with Revolution Software’s owner and COO Noirin Carmody acting as chair, Playmob’s chairman Ian Livingstone CBE as vice chair, and Take-Two Interactive’s senior director of sales UK and export Dave Gould as treasurer. The Ukie board is made up of …

Method has picked up a team for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds roster, signing three new players to back up Anssi ‘AndyPyro’ Huovinen, who competed under Method’s banner at the Gamescom PUBG invitational event.  The new roster is Jamon ‘RaptorDRaptor’ Moretz, Ludvik ‘Aitzy’ Jahnsen, Mathias ‘EnergeticTurtle’ Nielson and Huovinen.  "I wanted Raptor on …

CounterLogic Gaming is releasing its Overwatch team, joining dozens of organisations who have let their teams go in 2017. CLG announced their acquisition of an Overwatch team in December 2016 at Major League Gaming’s Vegas Overwatch tournament, and the roster has remained fairly stable despite a lack of major success …

Quoted by the news agency, the CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc says more competition will drive adoption and development

Today saw the publishing of the much-awaited Independent Review of the Creative Industries (IRCI), which the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) commissioned out of the Industrial Strategy paper earlier this year. The headline statement was that the report supported calls for an extended UK games fund and …

The game jam that creates audio games is raising funds for sight loss charities and starts on October 6th

HTC Vive is to boost the amount of revenue share developers receive on its global Viveport store to celebrate its one-year anniversary, the company has announced. This is in addition to a swathe of new features for developers that will be rolling out very soon. From October until the end …

Even if you know how a car drives, would you know what to test to make sure a videogame captured it accurately? Sean Cleaver speaks to Slightly Mad Studios’ Stephen Viljoen and Rod Chong about how Project Cars 2 ‘handles’ the pressure of getting the worlds most exclusive vehicles accurate

A new fundraising initiative to support seven worldwide gaming charities is to take place this weekend. Dubbed the One Gamer Fund, all money raised over the next three days will then be shared between the supported organisations, which include AbleGamers, Child’s Play, Games for Change, Global Game Jam, IGDA Foundation, …

Gaming merchandise is nothing new. As our regular Margin Makers section in the magazine shows, there’s already something to complement almost every game under the sun, so much so that merchandise has now become a key element of modern games retail, be that online, on the high street, or increasingly …