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Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has said the company’s internal development teams have "mastered" the Unreal Engine, according to VentureBeat. Speaking at a Q&A session with investors in Kyoto, Miyamoto reportedly spoke at length about how the team had been experimenting with the popular game engine and how the Switch had been …

Ubisoft has announced that the first free update from Rainbow Six Siege Year 2 is now available for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Year 2 pass holders can download the Operation Velvet Shell update from today, but non-season pass holders will have to wait until February 14th before they can …

Braben: "It is creatively stimulating, already has a high worldwide profile, and is a perfect match for our expertise."

"We're very proud to be able to add this prominent collaboration to our publishing business,"

Fire Emblem Heroes, Nintendo’s latest mobile game, made $2.9m on its first day, according to mobile data firm Sensor Tower, after being downloaded over 2m times on Android and iOS. That’s still some way behind Nintendo’s first app, Super Mario Run, which Sensor Tower estimates grossed $8.4m in revenue on …

After nine years in development, D-Pad’s 2D pixel art platformer Owlboy finally released in November. Alex Calvin catches up with programmer Jo-Remi Madsen to find out about this adventure nearly a decade in the making

The wordy team-up heralds a new update for 2012 hit Spelltower and a new word game

Hoyer will now oversee writing, design and voiceover teams at the company

SuperData’s Stephanie Llamas investigates the reasons racial and ethnic diversity are underrepresented in games, and the effects that this has on their audiences

Bioware’s Mass Effect trilogy was one of the most popular sci-fi series of the last generation. Now the Canadian studio’s finally bringing its grand space opera to PS4, Xbox One and PC. Dubbed Mass Effect Andromeda, the latest entry in its intergalactic RPG series promises a world four times the …