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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 …

Lay offs hit Perfect World Entertainment's community team, but development won't be affected

The next PlayStation firmware update, currently available in beta form, allows the PS4 Pro to use its full power to improve the performance of titles which have not yet been patched. In theory, any PS4 game can now take advantage of the more powerful hardware, it’s called PS4 Pro Boost …

Hideo Kojima has confirmed that his upcoming game Death Stranding will definitely be a PS4 game rather than a potential PS5 title, and that right now it won’t be playable in VR. Speaking about the game at RTX Sydney, as reported by DualShockers, Kojima said the team was currently working …

It has been a known quantity for months, but the major French shuffle in CS:GO has finally happened and G2 Esports has come out with the best of the lot.  G2 Esports new CS:GO roster sees Richard "shox" Papillon and Alexandre "bodyy" Pianaro stay with the organisation and former EnVyUs …

ELEAGUE has revealed the official viewing stats for the final of the ELEAGUE Major and unsurprisingly it’s a pretty big number.  The total viewer reach of the ELEAGUE final was 3.6 million viewers across all platforms including the TBS TV broadcast. This also included 1.8 million people who were first …