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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

This weekend sees the return of the Summer version of Games Done Quick, and the semiannual speedrunning event has released its schedule, meaning you can decide which games you want to see ‘done quick’  It’s also a big deal for those in the games business, because it’s an event that’s …

Unity's VP of engineer, Lucas Meijer, discussed the model on stage at the keynote in Amsterdam today

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

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