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Designer Franois Alliot is a relative newcomer to video games. Having studied literature at university, he was a consultant for several years, but decided to give game development a shot after he moved to the UK with his partner in 2013. Forming developer Nerial, Alliot started with mobile puzzle game …

In game purchases have boosted the League of Legends World Championship prize pool by more than $2 million. 25% of all purchases of the Championship Zed skin and the Championship Ward are directly added to the prize pool, while 30% of team icon sales are sent directly to the teams. …

Carmack suggests developers are coasting on novelty, should be working hard to lower bar to adoption

Scottish game industry now third largest in the UK

A slip up on the Amazon listing for the official Mass Effect: Andromeda art book may have revealed the game’s release date. Destructoid noticed that the listing for The Art of Mass Effect: Andromeda on the US version of Amazon currently has a release date of March 21st 2017. Now …

Critics have not exactly been nice to CI Games and its Sniper: Ghost Warrior franchise in the past. Although the series has been commercially successful since its 2010 launch, its Metacritic scores are all below 55. But with Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3, CEO Marek Tyminski hopes to move away from …

There will be a tie-in game arriving alongside next year’s Power Ranger movie reboot. As leaked last week, Bandai Namco is publishing Saban’s Mighty Morphin Power Ranger: Mega Battle. The ‘Saban’ part of that title refers to the return of the series’ creator Haim Saban, who is producing the new …

When Titanfall launched in 2014, it was a new IP brimming with potential. Made by Respawn, a new developer formed from alumni of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare studio Infinity Ward, it looked like an interesting evolution of the first person shooter genre. Titanfall took the first-person shooter mechanics Respawn …

22 bug fixes in this minor release ahead of 5.3 launch in mid-november

24 days still left on the Fig campaign, stretch goals added