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Read More »Sumo Digital is preparing to go public according to City reports
CD Projekt Red posts open letter addressing employee morale
After Glassdoor employee reviews gained internet momentum, the developer has talked openly about its ethos
Read More »Humble Bundle charity games retailer acquired by IGN
CEO Jeffery Rosen welcomes the move saying "as far as we’ve come, we know we are just getting started"
Read More »Labour MP raises the issue of loot boxes in UK Parliament.
Video game loot boxes have recently been a contentious issue in video games, with everyone offering an opinion. It’s almost like loot boxes have only just appeared, and haven’t been in games for years, a slippery slope gaming accepted when it first purchased armour for their horse in Oblivion for …
Read More »SpecialEffect at 10: “We’ve increased our work tenfold”
SpecialEffect celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and just raised over £300,000 during its One Special Day campaign. We talk to founder and CEO Dr Mick Donegan (pictured below) about what’s next for the gaming charity. Congrats on your 10th anniversary. How has SpecialEffect grown over the last ten years? We’ve increased the number …
Read More »Bluehole details last planned patch for Early Access, with a vaulting on the test server just weeks away
Bluehole have filled in their development roadmap for the rest of 2017, paving the way for the game’s 1.0 release on PC and an Xbox Game Preview release by the end of the year. Bluehole, acknowledging their promises to deliver a full release to the PC by the end of …
Read More »Have Shadow of War sales lived up to its ‘triple-A flagship’ billing?
Warner Bros’ Middle-earth: Shadow of War’s first weekend figures came out this morning and it looks to be down on what the company was hoping for the title. It’s still one of the better-selling titles of the year – in the top ten of 2017’s various Week One openings – but we …
Read More »Wargaming opens new mobile studio in Moscow
Wargaming has opened a new mobile development studio in Moscow, the company has announced. Headed up by industry veteran Andrey Zimenko (pictured below), the studio will start developing "mid-core" titles for mobile platforms as soon as it has finished the hiring process for its new team. Zimenko, who has 13 years …
Read More »IGN acquires Humble Bundle
Media giant IGN has acquired the pay-what-you-want game bundle service Humble Bundle, the companies have announced. Exact terms of the surprising deal haven’t been disclosed, but Humble Bundle has said it will now have "more resources and help from IGN" going forward. Otherwise, it’s still very much business as usual, …
Read More »Jungsoo ‘Surrender’ Kim wins HCT Summer Championship for $60,000 and a ticket to the World Championship
Jungsoo ‘Surrender’ Kim has emerged as the victor of the Hearthstone Championship Tour Summer Championship, which took place at the new Blizzard Arena in Burbank. The South Korean player won out over Swedish Jon ‘Orange’ Westberg in the finals, earning himself $60,000 of the $250,000 prize pool, but also a …
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