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A notoriously shoddy but undeniably appealingly quirky Sega CD game that uses Full Motion Video (FMV) is getting a surprise re-release on PS4 and Xbox One. Night Trap was first released in 1992 and was notable for utilising Sega’s then flashy new disc format to offer actual video footage in-game. …

20 year-old Adam Mudd has been sentenced to two years in jail for creating a hacking program that was responsible for downing Sony and Microsoft’s networks. The Guardian reports that Mudd, who was 16 at the time, created a program called Titanium Stresser that was designed to shut down services …

The UK’s leading games events company Multiplay Events has launched a brand-new hardware rental arm to help other organisations get the kit they need to put on large-scale events. Dubbed Multiplay Rentals, the company now offers a full range of services to facilitate large scale events, including hardware rental and …

There’s a greater range of hardware and operating system platforms than ever before. That means more opportunity, and more complications, for games publishers. We catch up with a handful of thoroughly modern publishers working across a range of digital and physical formats to ask them what they think of the …

Japanese developer and middleware company return to the game engine market with the open source C# based solution

Julian Gallop is crowdfunding what is described as a spiritual successor to his 1994 strategy hit X-COM. Phoenix Point is looking for $500km on Fig, and has already reached almost $296 with over 40 days left of its funding drive. The game is pencilled in for a Q4 2018 launch …

The saga of Vivendi’s encroaching interest in French publisher Ubisoft could be on the verge of reaching a head with a full acquisition push. Reuters reports that Vivendi plans to address investor concerns about its strategies and financial results by increasing its video game and advertising presence. Ubisoft and ad …

Tomorrow, Activision and Sledgehammer Games will be revealing the next entry in the Call of Duty franchise, Call of Duty: WWII. The imaginatively named title signals Call of Duty’s return to the second world war, and this look tomorrow is our first look at the gameplay, story and potentially multiplayer …

The minority ownership share is intended to help the company grow internationally

All categories still open for nomination until Friday for the awards in July