This year has already brought a few shocks and surprises to retail. The first few months of 2017 had its usual new entries in best-selling franchises such as Resident Evil 7 and Mass Effect Andromeda, some big new IP releases including Horizon Zero Dawn, and, of course, there’s Crash Bandicoot …
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The game has continued to close in on Dota 2's 1.3m concurrent player record as well
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The Grads in Games and Aardvark Swift student challenge series enters its ninth year and are looking for new entrants
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Capcom’s Resident Evil 7 will be returning to retail with a new Gold Edition on December 12th later this year, the publisher has announced. Available on PS4, Xbox One and PC in both physical and digital versions, the Gold Edition will feature all the original content from the original game, …
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Creators using Mojang’s Minecraft Marketplace have made more than $1 million since the service launched in June, the company has announced. The program, which allows Minecraft community members to make money from their user-generated in-game content, runs alongside the Minecraft Store, and has seen users create everything from their own …
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Since its formation in 2015 DingIt.tv has been a quiet contender to YouTube’s gaming video throne, making slow inroads into a space that its more established competitor has long had locked down. Adam Simmons is the VP of content and marketing at DingIt’s recently established parent company Level Up Media, …
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David Canela, senior game designer at Tequila Works, sits in the hot seat to explain how he became a game designer
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During a livestream earlier today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot announced the creation of a new studio in Saguenay (Quebec, Canada) and a massive investment plan for the region – the most important one for Ubisoft since it opened its first studio in Quebec in 1997. Ubisoft Saguenay will open as …
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Saguenay will be the fourth studio in the area, opening January 31st, 2018, with the second opening at a later date in the future
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Fast Travel Games, the VR studio founded by ex-EA, Rovio and DICE employees, has announced it’s raised a $2.1m series A funding rounded. The funding was led by leading Nordic venture capital firm Industrifonden, with participation from Creades, Inbox Capital and existing investor Sunstone Capital. This brings the company’s total …
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