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DreamHack has announced that it has teamed up with BlueHole, the developers of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, to run competitive matches at DreamHack Summer. Anyone who takes their PC along to the massive LAN party will be able to play the game for free during the weekend. Everyday the BlueHole team will …

Square Enix has teamed up with the Warsaw-based Bulletstorm studio People Can Fly in a new external development partnership, the publisher has announced. The partnership will see both companies working together to develop a new and original triple-A title for PC and consoles. In order to carry out this new …

Aardvark Swift's Joey Relton and Ian Goodall look at how games can improve on representation

Production agency Attention Seekers has today announced that it’s entered into an exclusive agreement with BT Productions – the production arm of BT Sport – to produce new TV formats and live content programming based around games. The joint venture will see Attention Seekers creating content that covers all forms …

Say hello to Ubisoft’s new logo. Unveiled yesterday on the Ubisoft blog, the publisher said the ‘new swirl’ marks "a new era" for Ubisoft as it puts a renewed focus on its live and digital game portfolio, as well as its player-centric approach to creating its immersive, future game worlds. …

Veteran PlayStation developer to launch a new title for a franchise at E3

The Pokemon Company released its latest financial report this week, and its net sales reached an incredible $143.3m in the last fiscal year (ended February 28th 2017), showing a massive growth of 2,458 per cent compared to last year. To put that in perspective – that’s 26x higher than The …

The creators behind PlayStation titles Pain and Ratchet: Deadlocked HD have reformed to create a brand-new studio. Previously known as Idol Minds, the studio has now re-branded itself as Deck Nine Games, marking a new direction for the Colorado-based development team as it shifts its focus toward narrative-driven games. Deck …

Ismailer moves up from COO and senior VP of Publishing after ten years

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has finally been knocked off the top spot in Japan by Falcom’s Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana for the PS4, according to the latest data from Famitsu. The action RPG, which is due to launch in the UK this September, sold 30,764 copies in its first …