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New studio to work on mid-core mobile titles

Increasingly, developers can import a model of a real-world city into their games, rather than designing it themselves. But what does that option really bring to the table, and isn't it a little creatively stifling?

Management sim Cities: Skylines is coming to Xbox One later this year, Paradox Interactive has announced. The game will launch this spring and will also include the original’s first expansion, Cities: Skylines – After Dark. Cities: Skylines – Xbox One Edition is being ported by Tantalus Media (previously responsible for …

Newell sheds light on how games get made at Valve

Starbreeze is to begin mass producing its StarVR headsets later this year, the company revealed in its full year report for 2016. For now, the publisher will continue to distribute and prioritise development on the current version of the headset to its key partners, but there’s been interest from "multiple …

Not everyone gets everything he wants

Starbreeze has released it full year-end report for 2016 and its net revenue for the year was up 58 per cent year-on-year, reaching 345.5m Swedish Krona (SEK) (or 31m). The publisher had a particularly healthy Q4 as well, with net revenue totalling 99.4m SEK (8.9m), showing a growth of 103 …

The Lylat Cruise stage has been restored to the competitive map pool in the Super Smash Bros Wii U ruleset after community outcry.  The stage was removed earlier in the year when the new tournament ruleset was revealed, however fans and pro players were not happy with the change. After …

Belgian football club RSC Anderlecht has announced its intention to sign a FIFA player.  The club will hold an open trial on April 29th and 30th, with up to 256 player taking part. Those that do well will be invited to annual RSCA fan day where the final round of …

Orbit Esport has announced that it will no longer function as an organisation, instead becoming an investment firm.  However it will still own teams, by holding a majority share of Red Reserve. Red Reserve will absorb all of Orbit’s current teams, including its highly successful Call of Duty team who …