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Rocket League, the vehicular game of kickball that took the world by storm when it launched on PlayStation Plus to little fanfare in July 2015 turns two this month. In two years, it has established itself as one of the breakout esports successes of this generation, a poster car both for …

Hearthstone’s latest expansion is just a month away, and until now it’s been kept in relative secrecy. Nothing lasts forever though, and the Chinese Hearthstone site has leaked assets which reveal a bit of information about what we can expect from the expansion, thematically. These images appeared on the official …

Think you know the answer? How about putting that to the test at the Develop Quiz 2017?

PS4 games are now available on Sony’s PlayStation Now streaming service, meaning you can now play PS4 games on your PC. 50 PS4 titles will be added to the service today, including Killzone: Shadow Fall, Saints Row IV Re-Elected, WWE 2K16, Tropic 5 and Tearaway Unfolded, with additional games being …

When it comes to localising a video game successfully, there are clear benefits obtained by bringing the translation team as close as possible to the QA team, ideally under one roof. Testronic’s Translation Service Manager Manuel Verdinelli explains why

Former Jagex man returns as director of talent acquisition

Kim ‘Effect’ Hyun, a damage dealer for Team EnVyUs’ Overwatch roster, took to Twitter on Tuesday to say that he’s looking to start practicing Overwatch.  The tweet, in Korean, is embedded below, but was translated by Slingshot Esports.  In English: “I decided to play CS:GO during the pockets of time …

Nottingham-based indie developer Super Punk Games has received the interim certificate for game relief from HMRC for its work on The Last Leviathan, the studio announced today. The physics-based ship building and destruction title launched on Steam’s Early Access program in June last year, and has remained in the top …

PayPal remains the top digital payment method among gamers around the world, according to the latest analysis from SuperData Research, but strong competition from Apple Pay and Amazon Payments are starting to erode PayPal’s market share. In the US, PayPal’s market share fell from 32.1 per cent in 2015 to …

Toshiba has partnered with esports team Panda Global, in a deal which will see Panda Global athletes using Toshiba technology both in tournaments and during streams.  “Toshiba understands the unique needs of gamers and we are constantly striving to deliver high performance SATA and NVMe solid state drives to empower …