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Vodafone Spain will launch an esports channel on streaming service Twitch this Friday, entitled eSports Vodafone. The channel, currently exclusive to Twitch, will broadcast content from 16:00 to 00:00 Spanish time and feature a variety of gaming news, entertainment and general interest programs well-suited for fans of esports, or those …

Following the statement today from CI Games on the future focus of the company, Sean Cleaver discusses how honesty is refreshing in our industry

The move, reported by Reuters, is to stop media giant Vivendi from buying overall control

licences for Painter 2, Designer 6 and B2M 3 currently over half price

Data from VRDC report shows 35 per cent of developers would release their next title exclusively for the platform

Jumpship also announced its first title, Somerville, to be developed in Guildford

An augmented reality studio founded by two former Valve employees has ceased operations. That’s according to Polygon, which reports that CastAR and closed its internal development studio Eat Sleep Play and laid off around 70 members of staff across its Palo Alto and Salt Lake City offices. A group of …

Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 and Lords of the Fallen developer CI Games has said that its future titles will be smaller and more tightly focused. Its most recent Sniper game faced a rough reception from critics, most of whom agreed that there were an unacceptable number of bugs. We’ve learned …

The developer behind Prison Architect has said that its latest release has proved a huge commercial disappointment. Scanner Sombre released in April but has managed to sell just 6,000 copies in its first two months on Steam. Prison Architect, meanwhile, has sold well in excess of 2m units. "It’s bombed …

The launch of Sega Forever has been positive, the company has argued, although it concedes that there are lessons to be learned. Sega last week launched a number of its retro titles on mobile under the new Sega Forever banner. The games are free to download and play, although gamers …