Open marketplace Itch.io has admitted that some users have been using its platform to sell fraudulent copies of popular indie games. A Kotaku UKreport revealed that two big indie hits – Rimworld and Dead Cells – were put up for sale on the Itch.io marketplace at big discounts. Neither were …
Read More »Sports Direct acquires a quarter of GAME
UK sporting retailer Sports Direct has acquired 44m shares in GAME Digital. This means that the company, headed by controversial UK businessman Mike Ashley, now owns over a quarter of the struggling video games specialist. The move has seen GAME’s share price recover a little. It had fallen to as …
Read More »Guerrilla Games win Studio of the Year at the Develop Awards 2017
The full list of winners are below for tonight's awards, sponsored by Epic Games
Read More »InXile Entertainment secures $4.5m investment for new VR title
The studio behind Wasteland and Tides of Numenera has announced it’s working on a VR open world survival RPG title after securing a combined equity and project investment of $4.5m from a subsidiary of Japan’s global entertainment publisher and developer Gumi Inc. InXile Entertainment, who’s also currently working on Wasteland …
Read More »Opinion: DLC-quels
Expansions for narrative games are becoming too big for their boots. Jem Alexander thinks these smaller triple-A experiences are a great way to remove financial pressure from developers and players alike
Read More »Ex-ARM and Guerrilla Cambridge devs form new VR, AR and MR firm Virtual Arts
A team of ex-ARM and Guerrilla Cambridge devs have set up a new company based in Cambridge dedicated to revolutionising the worlds of virtual, augmented and mixed reality technology and content. Virtual Arts was initially formed in December 2016 when co-founders Nizar Romdan and Doug Day (CEO and CTO respectively) …
Read More »inXile Entertainment to get investment for new RPG VR game
gumi VR to provide funds for development of the new title from the Wasteland 2 developer
Read More »Blizzard unveils details on Overwatch League, including team owned by NetEase
Blizzard has unveiled details on its Overwatch League, with a list of team owners putting an end to a lot of speculation regarding who will be competing, but the lack of a date giving more fuel to the burning questions about when, exactly. Teams will be based in Boston, Los …
Read More »Studio Gobo win the Develop Quiz 2017
The team from Hove beat strong competition for a very game focused quiz night, in association with Testronic
Read More »PGL unveil new ban system for PGL Counter-Strike Major
Tournament organiser PGL, hosts of the upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major in Krakow Poland, will be rolling out a new and different map veto system for their Swiss system best-of-one group stage matches. As a comparison, the ELEAGUE Major involved five alternating bans, with the map then randomly decided between the …
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