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The next game from music game maestros Harmonix has been revealed. It’s called DropMix, and has been jointly developed with toy giant Hasbro. Inside the box is a deck of cards and a Bluetooth and NFC enabled board that can connect with a smartphone or tablet (iOS or Android). Each …

This is the studio's first expansion out of native Turkey

Blizzard has confirmed that the price of cards packs for Hearthstone is to increase from March 22nd, and the UK in particular is in for a rough time. The prices, which apply to PC, Mac and Android, were announced on the Battle.net forums. The European price is going up by …

There are three new entries in the Top Ten this week, with Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Wildlands debuting at No.1. A year to the week after The Division enjoyed its record-breaking arrival, Wildlands sets a new 2017 week one record, and becomes the second fastest selling Tom Clancy title ever. Last …

The saga of the Spectrum ZX Vega+ continues this week with news of a fresh delay to the hardware and another personal attack from the company behind it. Last week it was reported that Retro Computers threatened the BBC with legal action if it reported on its ongoing failure to …

Changes made to "fine-tune the relevance and accuracy of the overall review score for each product."

Joy Con syncing and screen scratching problems reported online are not symptomatic of problems with the Switch hardware, Nintendo has claimed. Speaking to Time, the platform holder has for the first time responded to the growing reports of manufacturing or design problems with the machine. At Nintendo, we take great …

Event at Komedia Brighton on July 11th

"The average Australian gamer is now indistinguishable from the average Australian."

For live games the design process never ends. Jem Alexander talks to Riot Games’ Design Director, Greg Street, about balancing and adding features to a game played by millions of players daily