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Bethesda creative director to be honoured at 20th D.I.C.E awards

HTML5 developers to bring Valiant's comic characters to games

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 Overwatch roster and the upcoming Overwatch League while today he jumps into the Fnatic CS:GO team’s difficult 2016. Go back twelve months …

Seed funding successful for the VR esports outfit

Here’s our take on the big events in the games industry this year. There were some very big releases this year; though some weren’t quite as big as hoped for. As we’ve discussed that ad nauseam in recent weeks, we’ll have no more talk of that here. We’ve picked out …

Recognising VR's potential to raise a smile, two creatives with very different background came together to form a studio that respects the power of silliness. The result? An accounting game.

As the year draws to a close everyone is looking head to the holidays, but for those that want to get into the christmas spirit right now you can jump into Overwatch, with its new holiday event.  The Winter Wonderland event sees a ton of new skins and cosmetics introduced, …

eSports news site Dexerto has partnered with SCL, a company that provides sport education in the UK, to launch eSports academies in the UK.  The academies will be for 16 to 18 year olds, and will offer them the chance to earn a BTEC Level 3 qualification, which is the …

Skillsearch’s head of business development Guy DeRosa discusses the increasing demand for VR and AR professionals. Tell us about your company. Skillsearch is one of Europe’s largest recruitment agencies working within the games industry. We’re also known as the organisers of the annual charity bash Play@Develop, and have become best …

Series B and C funding completed