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fans to strip out microtransactions, claim title will never be pay to play or pay to win

In the last few years, video games have come a long way in terms of working with government. Thanks to the tireless work of certain members of our industry, UK video games have received tax relief (VGTR) since 2014. And thanks to the Livingstone-Hope report, we now have coding on …

Game company looking to license out games based on comic 2000 AD's library of characters, which it holds the licenses for

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.