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The news of Red Dead Redemption 2’s delay until spring 2018 may have come as something of a disappointment this morning, but Take-Two’s fourth quarter and fiscal year 2017 results show the publisher couldn’t be in better shape to weather the storm. A huge growth in digital sales has been …

John Broomhall talks with supervising sound designer Loic Couthier about re-imagining the soundtrack of an iconic franchise

Eight months on since its initial Early Access release and with two console betas under its belt, Paladins has posted some impressive numbers. The Hi-Rez developed game has now attracted over 11m players, and was the most played new game in Steam in 2016. 2m of these 11m players come …

Cliff Bleszinski’s multiplayer shooter LawBreakers has been confirmed for a release on PS4. During my ‘retirement’, honestly, I was bored as hell. My waifu and I were ready to strangle each other. I was getting fat,” the former Gears of War developer said on the PlayStation Blog. Ultimately, I couldn’t …

The RollerCoaster Tycoon series will remain an Atari property until 2022. The announcement says that the agreement provides for investment and expansion of the series” and that Atari will continue to provide ongoing support across its RCT titles and the extension will benefit players with additional investment and product development …

It transpires that the developers who left the Kerbal Space Program team last year headed to Valve. PCGamesN reports that former Valve architect and environmental designer Roger Lundeen revealed the news in the Game Dev Unchained podcast. [Valve] are still buying up mod teams,” he said. There’s the group that …

First a confession: when I started in the industry, back in 1863, I didn’t really think that sexism applied to me. I was outspoken and thought that if you could ‘man up’ and work hard, you’d be fine. I was wrong. Maybe it’s hindsight – the most powerful of the …

One of the most anticipated releases of recent times has been pushed back to 2018. Red Dead Redemption 2 had been due out in autumn of this year, but Rockstar has confirmed an approximate six month delay. Red Dead Redemption 2 is now set to launch Spring 2018 on PlayStation …

Ubisoft has confirmed the next instalment in the Far Cry series will be headed to Hope County, Montana, and that the official worldwide reveal will be happening this Friday on May 26th. Far Cry 5 was officially confirmed last week during Ubisoft’s latest financial results, and will release on PS4, …

Survive-em-up PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has revealed a new weapon: Russian-made sniper rifle the VSS Vintorez. The Vintorez will shake up the game, as a sniper rifle that comes with both a scope and a suppressor as standard, meaning the act of ‘building’ a sniper rifle out of different attachments is no …