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Former Oculus co-founder and chief engineer at Guitar Hero producer RedOctane Jack McCauley has joined Lucid VR has chief engineer. In his new role, McCauley will head up the worldwide manufacturing of their flagship virtual and augmented reality camera, the VR180 LucidCam. He will also help increase product production and …

Liverpool-based developer and animation studio to get backing for new IP projects

EA has announced its Q1 2018 results for the three months ending June 30th 2017, and digital net sales reached $3.147bn for the trailing 12-month period, representing 63 per cent of the company’s total net sales. That’s an increase of 23 per cent year-on-year. For the quarter, total net revenue …

Henrik ‘AdmiralBulldog’ Ahnberg was due to attend Dota 2’s The International tournament as part of its talent team, as a commentator and analyst. However, he’s been denied entry to the US, and is currently on his way home to Gothenburg, Sweden. Ahnberg is a well known figure on the Dota …

Developer Jagex adds to the already large Guinness World Record haul for its MMO

Almost two and a half decades since setting up the studio, Rebellion remains fiercely independent and continues to grow on the back of its many successes. Jem Alexander speaks to CEO Jason Kingsley about making great games with no external shareholders

BT Sport will air the Elite Series tournament games in the UK, following the announcement of a partnership with Gfinity. Starting today, BT Sport’s platforms will broadcast Gfinity’s popular tournament, held at the Gfinity Esports Arena in London, with weekly games until the weekend of finals from September 1st to …

Ever fancied gaming on a cruise ship? Ignore the sea-sickness and there’s an appeal there. It’s an appeal that the Gamer Gauntlet 2017 Cruise seems to have been taking a swing for. The trip, billed as the “Ultimate Gamer Cruise”, has been around for a year, promising EDM DJ’s, cosplay …

Daybreak Games have announced that the H1Z1 Invitational will return for the third year running, taking place at Twitchcon 2017. Twitchcon 2017 is taking place at the Long Beach Arena in California from October 20-22, and it is a time of rapid fire announcements for the Twitch streaming platform, which …

The studio veteran first started with Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood and was working on Anthem