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Multiplayer will be key for the mainstream adoption of virtual reality, but comes with a fresh set of problems to surmount. Jem Alexander asks studios what stands between us and the perfect social VR experience.

Kelion joins CCP from nDreams,Scammell leaves VideoGamer and a new media and market development director forInnoGames. CCP hires new comms lead for its VR portfolio George Kelion has joined Eve: Valkyrie developer CCP as senior communications lead for VR games. He will be working from the firm’s new studio in …

"The acquisition of Eight Pixels Square is another exciting step forward for the business"

no further games planned from the long-lived publisher

The Halo World Championship is returning in early 2017, with qualifying events taking place all over the world.  Dates for the World Championship itself have yet to be revealed, although it is expected to be sometime in April. However a number of LAN events beforehand have been revealed.  First up …

Dota 2 finally got a new patch after more than six months and it changes almost everything we know about Dota.  The 7.00 patch is currently live on the test client and goes live in the main client tonight. The full list of patch notes can be seen over on …

It all started in VR, in a dirty kitchen. At E3 2015, Capcom started showing off a PlayStation VR demo called Kitchen, a virtual reality horror experience that was – if nothing else – incredibly unsettling. At the time I speculated with my colleagues that this was Capcom teasing a …

FC St. Gallen, the oldest football team in Sweden, has signed a FIFA player to enter the world of eSports.  Sandro “Neysk11L” Poschinger is the player they have gone all in on, and will now play for the club. He will represent them in tournaments and will most likely be …

It’s been a difficult few years for Microsoft on the games side of things. Though Xbox One sales have certainly not been shabby, the console has failed to top the massively successful PlayStation 4. All of that changed this year. The firm claimed the hardware top spots in the UK …

We speak to Creative England's Rob Crossley about the Greenshoots indie development project