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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

John Broomhall talks with BioWare’s Michael Kent & Jeremie Voillot about the audio design for the latest space adventure

The group, mostly known for communication and entertainment creates new division for gaming