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Games publishers now have the option of utilising Rewarded Video in their Facebook titles. You may not be familiar with the term but you’ve very possibly encountered the system in mobile games. Rewarded Videos offer players the chance to watch a video ad in return for some sort of in-game …

Playdead’s award-winning platformers Limbo and Inside are coming to retail in a special double pack courtesy of 505 Games, the publisher has announced. The Inside/Limbo Double Pack will arrive on shop shelves later this autumn on PS4 and Xbox One priced at 19.99, says 505. It will land in the …

Creating a free to play game is one thing, creating a mascot to boot is another. Shedworks Games creative director, Gregorios Kythreotis talks us through the development of Swing King and the Temple of Bling

Blizzard have changed the way Hearthstone’s card pack system works in China, probably in response to Chinese laws that now require games companies to disclose the exact odds of receiving each class of item in any sort of loot box. This includes Heathstone’s card packs, which fall foul of China’s …

The developer of Rocket League has said that at least one person from its team has been in touch with Sony every day since launch, and that the topic of cross-platform play has always been met with the same answer. It was confirmed at E3 that the Switch version of …

Sony has re-worked the streaming video services section on PS4. The company describes the redesign as a new, visually appealing, content driven video experience which enable players and their households to easily discover and stream the best video content across PlayStation Store and 3rd party services”. The main change is …

The founder of Dishonored and Prey developer Arkane has announced his departure from the studio after nearly two decades. While the company’s credits have touched on well known titles such as Call of Duty: World at War and BioShock 2, it was 2012 stealth adventure Dishonored that shot the company …

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has released its third monthly patch, full of new content and balancing changes. In the patch notes, Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene himself talked about the continued improvements to server performance which are taking place during the weekly optimisation patches as a preface to the patch notes themselves, adding that …

Gamers are facing a bit of a struggle to secure pre-orders for Nintendo’s recently announced SNES Classic Mini. The device earlier this week went up for pre-order with retailers such as GAME and Amazon before almost instantly going out of stock. Nintendo itself then made pre-orders available directly through its …

The Dishonored and Prey director departs after 18 years at the helm