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China has created new regulations that force developers to reveal the odds of each item drops in loot boxes.  May eSports, such as CS:GO, Dota and Overwatch all have some kind of loot box system, where you will get one random item when you open the box. Most games don’t …

EA has announced that Sea of Solitude will be the second game to benefit from its EA Originals program. Developed by Cornelia Geppert and her team at Jo-Mei Games in Berlin, Sea of Solitude was first unveiled last year via a series of online GIFs that depicted a young girl …

Dustin Browder has announced that he is stepping down as the game director for Heroes of the Storm.  He will now move onto other projects within Blizzard, and will leave Heroes of the Storm in the capable hands of Alan Dabiri who has been a software engineer for the last …

Panda Global has picked up a Gears of War team just before the big Gears of War 4 Pro Circuit London Open event this weekend.  Ben "Strangulate" Laird, Bobby "phenomxnon" Kenny, Alec "Shock" Colins and Demarco "Drix" Gainesmake up the core of the team, with Frank "ko" Tibbs being the …

technical director Alan Dabiri taking the role of game director

Company using money to expand into iPhone development

High Street retailer GAME is teaming up with games industry charity SpecialEffect in the UK. GAME announced that its UK stores will be partnering with the organisation following a company-wide survey of its staff to see which charity they wanted to support. As a part of this, GAME will be …

Game makers now need to reveal their drop rates for loot boxes and other chance-based microtransactions

Demand for Nintendo’s Classic Mini: NES was greater than we anticipated,” Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has admitted. Speaking with CNET, Fils-Aime said that Nintendo was aware of the console shortages and that the company was doing everything it could to help ease consumer demand. "Every day there’s more …

Layoffs occurring early next year, with Obsidian continuing to work on the game, in a smaller capacity