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Microsoft has said that nearly half of Xbox One owners have taken advantage of the machine’s backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games. Now over 300 back compat titles,” Xbox boss Phil Spencer tweeted. Nearly 50% of XB1 owners playing BC games is great to see. Thanks for supporting the program.” …

Oculus has divided itself into separate PC and mobile divisions, with CEO Brendan Iribe stepping down as part of the changes. Iribe will head up the new PC business, while former Microsoft man Jon Thomason, who joined the company in August, will lead its mobile operations. Both founder Palmer Luckey …

Sony controller now supported as standard on Steam

Numerous new features with Google Daydream functionality to come soon

UK production company expanding its work in games

Gina Jackson has been appointed head of games at UK production company The Imaginarium Studios. The newly created role will see the company bringing its expertise in performance capture, VFX and real-time animation to the games industry. Jackson was previously managing director at NextGen Skills Academy, where she worked for …

Every day this week will we be releasing part of our interview with Fantic’s Chief Gaming Officer and Counter-Strike legend Patrik “cArn” Sättermon. Yesterday he spoke about Fnatic’s new store in London while today he jumps into Overwatch. Fnatic certainly isn’t a stranger to supporting new games early on, but …

Several anonymous sources and a post on Imgur claim that staff have been paid late or not at all throughout 2016

Eligible developers will be given subsidised access to Improbable's SpatialOS

Here’s our take on the big events in the games industry this year. It seems to have been a year dominated by hardware rather than software, with lots of new devices in the shape of VR headsets, updated consoles, new reveals and a smash hit retro revival. Lots of ‘new’ …