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Andy Brown, director of Replay Events (pictured right), specialises in retro gaming events. Here, he talks about how serving the retro community has genereted huge growth for his company. When it comes to the games industry, they say everything is cyclical. Every few years, the three major first party players …

Nintendo unveiled a swathe of new Switch and 3DS titles last night, including a brand new Super Mario Odyssey-themed Switch hardware bundle and the news that Bethesda’s critically acclaimed Doom (2016) and upcoming Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus titles will also be heading to Switch over the next year. Doom …

The World of Warcraft pet fox, named Shadow, will help fund relief for the recent US hurricans and South Asia flooding

Last night’s Nintendo Direct brought a surprising revelation for the esports crowd, mentioned in passing as Nintendo paraded a variety of Switch games in front of the audience.  Tencent’s mobile MOBA, a 5 v 5 offering, is coming to Nintendo Switch. You might not know the name Arena of Valor, …

Straley announces the end of his 18 year stay at the studio on the company blog

The service, which gave us many interesting titles, closes on September 29th but purchases can still be redownloaded in future

Attaba becomes the new EMEA director of commerce. Full story available on our sister site MCV

The development conference in Croatia will have a large indie presence in 2018

Indie developer Byron Atkinson-Jones is going on stage to tell jokes in the name of charity. This month, he gets some mentoring advice from fellow developer Brenda Romero

After qualifying for top Street Fighter V tournament the Capcom Cup, one of the game’s top players has announced he’s taking a break.  Daigo ‘The Beast’ Umehara is one of the top fighting game players in the world, with the Japanese player competing for nearly 20 years.  After finishing in …