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A Who’s Who on Doctor Who: a Who & A on 40 years of the Time Lord’s video games

The Doctor has been adventuring in space and time for 60 years, though more consistently across TV screens than gaming displays. Vince Pavey pulled aside some of the renegade time lord’s friends and collaborators from the British games industry to find out why

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Doctor Who, Until Dawn, virtual reality: the transformation of Supermassive Games

Back in 2012, Supermassive Games released its ambitious Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock. Working with the BBC, the Guildford-based studio had pitched a multi-part adventure for PlayStation consoles. It was to star Matt Smith in the title role and was being created, lovingly, by real fanatics of the sci-fi TV …

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Doctor Who: Legacy devs move to the UK to join brewery

The team behind Doctor Who: Legacy has moved from the United States to the UK. Tiny Rebel Games has traded the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles for a new office in Newport, South Wales. The studio’s creative director Lee Cummings grew up in the region, and his family owns …

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Chinese Room’s Dan Pinchbeck picks up British Writers’ Guild Award for Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture

The writer of PS4 exclusive Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture picked up the games writing prize at the British Writers’ Guild last night. Dan Pinchbeck of UK studio The Chinese Room beat out competition from murder mystery game Her Story and Failbetter Games’ Sunless Sea. The first person title is …

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BBC announces Doctor Who Game Maker educational tool

Doctor Who is again being used as an educational vehicle, this time to encourage kids to learn how to design games. The Doctor Who Game Maker will go live next week on September 15th (just a few days before the Timelord’s return to our TV screens on September 19th). It’s …

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VIDEO: All 13 Doctors will feature in LEGO Dimensions’ Doctor Who content

Warner Bros has released a new video detailing the tremendous fan service that Doctor Who fans will receive in LEGO Dimensions. All 13 incarnations of the Doctor (yes, 13 – our current Timelord Peter Capaldi may be the 12th Doctor, but we also have John hurt’s ‘War Doctor’ quietly nestled …

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Doctor Who and The Simpsons now confirmed for LEGO Dimensions

A number of new brands destined for LEGO Dimensions have been leaked via the LEGO website. Although the pages have now been removed, images of the instruction manuals for a number of sets have confirmed that Doctor Who, The Simpsons and Jurassic World will at some stage be headed to …

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