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London-based studio PlayStack has appointed Mads Jensen as COO and board director, the company has announced, effective immediately. In his new role, Jensen will work alongside CEO and founder Harvey Elliott to guide the company towards bringing even more creative games to market over the next year, driving the studio’s …

British mobile developer Hutch is crossing the pond and opening a new office in Nova Scotia, Canada, the company announced. The racing developer behind free-to-play hit Hot Wheels: Race Off (pictured) already has a London and a Brighton office and is now moving to Canada to broaden its capabilities and …

Blizzard has once again changed the name of its online gaming network, this time settling on the moniker ‘Blizzard Battle.net.’ The news comes just less than a year after Blizzard announced it had decided to move away from its long-standing Battle.net brand, and simply change it to Blizzard. Services such …

Former IBUYPOWER player Braxton ‘swag’ Pierce is returning to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to play competitively for the first time since a ban he picked up in January 2015.  Pierce was one of seven players banned by Valve at all competitive events. Since that time, he’s been streaming for Cloud9 and …

This becomes the third location for Hutch who are based in London and Brighton

Following The International championship on Saturday, the system was first to beat a real player at a comeptition

Blizzard have introduced a Public Test Realm for Warcraft 3, a first for the venerable real-time strategy title. Blizzard have stated that the PTR is primarily aimed at implementing a bunch of balance changes, in addition to updating assets and several other improvements. It’s poured fuel onto the raging fire …

The United States and United Kingdom have secured their spots at the Overwatch World Cup main event, taking place from November 3, during Blizzcon. The US and UK triumphed over Taiwan and Germany in the playoffs, with the UK remaining undefeated in terms of map score, Taiwan failing to score …

PUBG developer Bluehole received investment after failed buy out according to Chinese press

Develop was honoured to be a judge at this year’s Brains Eden gamea festival. Sean Cleaver talks us through the finale of the festival and what it was like to judge such a closely contested competition