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World of Warcraft and Overwatch developer Blizzard has won a US lawsuit against bot maker Bossland. The German company has been ordered to pay Blizzard $8.6m having been found guilty of nearly 43,000 counts of copyright infringement. Bossland had tried to have the case dismissed but chose not to defend …

EA owned developer BioWare has outlined some immediate improvements on the way for Mass Effect: Andromeda. The studio has also identified aspects of the game that will be worked on over the next two months. Tomorrow (Thursday April 5th) a patch will be released that will not only improve performance …

Charts have arrived on the Nintendo Switch eShop and Sumo Digital’s Snake Pass is the first title to take the No.1 spot. The charts are based on the number of downloads from the last two weeks, and will be updated automatically, according to Nintendo’s Switch news post, giving players an …

Potentially super-niche RPG Nier: Automata has achieved some definitely not niche sales numbers. Square Enix has announced that it has shipped 1m copies of the game across both physical and digital. It is currently available on PS4 and PC. The RPG has done very well critically, too, hitting 89 per …

In a somewhat backwards looking step, Atlus has told streamers that they face action should they stream too much of RPG hit Persona 5. We don’t want the experience to be spoiled for people who haven’t played the game,” Atlus USA said. Our fans have waited years for the game …

Viewers of streaming video platform Twitch are now able to purchase PC game content directly through the platform. Developers can present offers via their streams, while officially Partnered streamers can earn cash from sales made on their pages, at a rate of five per cent. Purchases can be downloaded and …

The art of Horizon Zero Dawn is a departure from Guerrilla Games’ previous games. Jem Alexander finds out how the creation of the Decima engine and expansion of the art team fed into that

We Happy Few, still in Early Access, has had the rights acquired to turn it into a movie

Jim Sterling and TotalBiscuit travel to Steam's offices to talk shop

NetGear is the latest company to sponsor PENTA Sports, the eSports organisation that is looking to expand after its acquisition of Ad Finem.  The sponsorship will see PENTA use NetGear’s Nighthawk product line throughout its teams, and will also see the two work together on events. Interestingly the announcement also …