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It might not be the Pokemon Stars title for Switch fans were hoping for, but Nintendo confirmed today that two new Pokemon titles are heading to 3DS this November. Entitled, Pokemon Ultra Sun and Pokemon Ultra Moon, these titles offer an alternate story to the original Sun and Moon titles …

Interview with Polygon claims focus is on mixed reality

Death comes quickly in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and it’s often senseless. There’s no fanfare, just the boom of gunfire and your body hitting the ground in a dirty building, or quiet woodland. Players dig it, with an average of 200,000 concurrent players and around 3m copies sold. However, it’s also incredibly …

Develop spoke to Creative Assembly studio director Tim Heaton and CA Sofia's game director Maya Georgieva about how the growth of the developer and what's in store for the future

Following acquisition of CA Sofia, the video shows the new ethos behind the studio

Improbable has welcomed former Disney VP Bill Roper (pictured left) and GitHub’s Jason Jhonson (pictured right) to its London leadership team. Roper joins the firm as chief creative officer, while Jhonson will be its new chief marketing officer. In their new roles, Roper will be working with studios to looking …

Former Disney VP and Github senior director respectively take on roles created after SoftBank investment

Kristian ‘K0nfig’ Wienecke, a rifler for CS:GO team North, got the ire of the crowd this past weekend, casting himself in the role of villain after telling an ESL commentator at the ESL Pro League Season 5 finals that he was going to “crush” G2 and show them that they …

Features several refinements from developer feedback, but not indicative of how the new consumer console will look

Daybreak Games have announced a H1Z1 Elite Series, debuting with both solo and team events at DreamHack Atlanta in July. The series is for H1Z1’s King of the Kill variant, which ditches the zombies and hardened survival for shootouts in a battle royale setting. This announcement comes the week after …