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Team Dignitas has appointed Jonathan Kemp as its new CEO after being purchased by the Philadelphia 76ers. Kemp is perhaps best known around these parts as being the former Chief Operating Officer for Eidos, although he has also worked in marketing and on the Olympics. His new role will see …

Japanese mobile publisher DeNA has dissolved DeNA Global and ngmoco LLC in a filing with the Tokyo Stock Exchange, informally announcing their retreat from western markets, DeNA Global was the company’s San Francisco based subsidiary, formed to oversee activities in the western markets. DeNA was one of the early leaders …

Company dissolves SF based DeNA Global

World champion F1 racing driver Lewis Hamilton will appear in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Hamilton’s cameo appearance sees him play the role of an engineer aboard the Retribution, one of the United Nations Space Alliance’s last remaining warships, following a devastating attack on their fleet in the game’s opening …

Dan Harmon, creator of Community and Rick and Morty, is making a comedy series based around eSports for YouTube Red. The series will feature six 30 minute episodes that follow a new team of eSports stars who are trying to make it big in the growing competitive gaming industry. Both …

Turns out that Candy Crush is still incredibly popular. So popular that US TV network CBS has decided to turn it into a TV game show. In the show two teams of contestants will compete to progress through giant interactive game boards. This will apparently take an entire hour, until …

Company has no plans to release any of the prototypes from inaugural "Square Jam"

Persistant Studio's particle effects software used by Sony London Studios

Competitive online shooter Dead Star is switching off, despite being offered for free to PlayStation Plus subscribers in April. Kotaku reports that Armature Studios is closing the game’s online servers on November 1st, and has already pulled the game’s store listing on both Steam and PSN. It was released last …

Watch Dogs 2 has been delayed on PC by two weeks to make sure it runs well on all the different hardware variations. The PC version of Watch Dogs 2 will now launch worldwide on November 29th, while the console versions of the game will still launch on November 15th. …