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New service announced at Unity game developer conference

It’s now only three weeks to the inaugural Future Games Summit 2016, which is being brought to you in association with MCV. The Future Games Summit is a brand new two-day conference which will examine current and future trends across the entire spectrum of the interactive entertainment industry. The two-day …

Company hopes to accelerate development by opening it to the VR-curious

The latest creation from Katamari Damacy mastermind Keita Takahashi is now available for a very specific group of owners. Woorld, which is an augmented reality title, is designed for Google’s Tango AR platform. And to date only one handset supports it – Lenovo’s Phab 2 Pro. Basically, this is about …

Titanfall 2 may yet achieve sales to match its critical popularity, EA has argued. The game debuted last week but indicators suggest sales will fall far short of predictions. Conversely, Battlefield 1 is performing stronger than expected. With the game launching just days apart, the natural conclusion is that Battlefield …

"We haven’t been super crisp on guidelines for screenshots in the past, so we’d like to take this opportunity to clarify some rules in this space,"

A new version of Minecraft targeted and schools and educators is now available to buy. Minecraft: Education Edition isn’t radically different to the vanilla game, but does come with some extra tools for teachers, such as student positional tracking, the easier allocation of resources and some additional in-game items. However, …

Three Fields Entertainment has not ben idle since its inception last March. When some indie developers spend years announcing projects that come out years later, Three Fields is about to release its second game in just six months. The studio’s debut title, Dangerous Golf, launched in June but didn’t really …

Yet another VR competitor will be arriving on the scene next week in the UK, US, Germany, Australia and Canada. Google’s Daydream VR headset will go on sale on November 10th and will cost 69 in the UK. It can be had either directly from Google itself, or alternatively from …

CCP’s VR dogfighting title Eve Valkyrie was one of the most visible virtual reality titles ahead its launch earlier this year. We catch up with the game’s global brand manager Ryan Geddes to see how the roll out of both Valkyrie and virtual reality has gone. Eve Valkyrie launched in …