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Not every developer is happy with Amazon's record on indie developers

The Nintendo Switch is a platform of many firsts, but it will also be the first time Nippon Ichi Software’s Disgaea series has arrived on one of Nintendo’s home consoles.  The very first title in the strategy RPG franchise, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, arrived on the Nintendo DS back in …

Showing new headset at GDC 2017

The Nintendo Switch is ready to take retail by storm, with the help of a wealth of accessories and tie-in items. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild alone has enough merchandise to fill the shelves of every UK retailers, but with third-party publishers on board as well, it …

It’s 12 months since Testronic’s COO Keith Ramsdale joined the business. Here he looks back on some significant changes made to the leading QA & Localization specialist…

A project designed to preserve the history and culture of the games industry is now live. The Video Games History Foundation is headed up by former games journalist and developer Frank Cifaldi. We’re non-profit corporation dedicated to figuring out how to save as much video game history as we can, …

It looks like CCP’s Gunjack might be the best-selling VR title to date. Speaking to Games Industry, CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Ptursson said that the space shooter has so far sold over half a million copies. I think [this] is a record,” he added. I’m certainly gonna claim it until …

The HTC Vive is no longer the only VR headset designed to support Valve’s OpenVR platform. Road to VR reports that rival hardware manufacturer LG is also working on a device that will utilize both OpenVR and SteamVR Tracking. Valve’s OpenVR standard was always designed to create a level playing …

Peter Moore, the former CEO of EA and current head of the publishers competitive gaming division, is set to become the new CEO of Liverpool FC.  Last night the football club released an announcement saying that Moore will be joining the club in the summer, becoming its new CEO, where …