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Nintendo’s inky online shooter Splatoon 2 is getting an early demo on Switch at the end of March. The game itself isn’t due to launch until sometime this summer, but Nintendo will be holding its first ‘global testfire’ for the game between March 24th and March 26th, giving players another …

My.com will be handling development duties moving forwards

Valve shows Greenlight the red light

200 employees could be affected

""We have people who work at Valve who can’t go home. They've been here for years."

Twitch has launched its new Communities feature, an open beta directory that allows creators and viewers to discover and share content based on their interests more easily. The service, which starts today, will supplement Twitch’s existing directory, but will also allow users to organise their profiles into interest or activity-based …

It’s unexpected to see a 400-year old play push the technological boundaries of live stage performance, but that’s exactly what the Royal Shakespeare Company has done with their latest production of The Tempest. Jem Alexander asks how games influenced the show.

Seven titles already on Humble's slate

DreamHack has announced that it will be running 10 Smash Bros tournaments this year, with Melee getting six and Smash 4 getting the other four.  Melee will make appearances at DreamHack DreamHack Austin, DreamHack Summer, DreamHack Atlanta, DreamHack Montreal, DreamHack Denver and DreamHack Winter.  Smash 4 (Wii U) will get …

Kabam: " game didn't meet our internal expectations"