Telltale Games has announced three new games coming out in the next year. A new five-part Batman game will release this August, while the final season of The Walking Dead and a new instalment in its The Wolf Among Us series will launch next year. The first episode of Batman: …
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DNA VR has officially opened the first full-scale virtual reality arcade in London. Based in Islington, the site has over 25 VR titles on offer, and aims to appeal to both gamers and non-gamers alike. Titles include Arizona Sunshine, Fruit Ninja VR, Space Pirate Trainer, The Lab, Raw Data and …
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Devolver Digital has announced its upcoming online action game Absolver will receive a limited physical release in when it launches next month. This is in addition to its standard digital release. Launching on PS4 and PC on August 29th, Devolver Digital will also be releasing 3,250 physical collector’s editions per …
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Kalypso Media has reported significant growth in its Asian and Russian operations, with China now forming 20 per cent of the publisher’s overall digital PC sales. That’s an increase of 19 per cent year-on-year. The publisher has also seen promising pre-sale figures for several of its upcoming titles in China …
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Ubisoft has announced its Q1 sales report for fiscal year 2017-18. Sales were up 45.2 per cent year-on-year between April and June 30th, amounting to €202.1m. That’s just over €30m more than expectations. Of that €202.1m, 94.3 per cent came from back catalogue sales, which equated to €190.4m. A lot …
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Sybo Games has appointed Amy Kalson as senior game developer. Kalson previously worked at EA as creative director and at Disney Interactive as senior design producer, and has also contributed to brands including Bejeweled and The Sims. In her new role, Kalson will play a key role in the continuing …
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Hand-tracking company Leap Motion has raised another $50m in Series C funding led by JP Morgan Asset Management, the firm has announced. This brings Leap Motion’s total fund-raising amount to just over $94m, according to Crunchbase. As described in a blog post on Leap Motion’s website, the funding will allow …
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Amazon has announced a new startup accelerator program for its smart voice assistant Alexa device, and London-based developer Sensible Object is the only company from the UK to make the list. The Alexa Accelerator, powered by Techstars, was created by the Alexa Fund, which provides up to $100m in VC …
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Jagex has announced that its renowned MMORPGs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape will be coming to mobile and tablet devices starting later this year. Old School RuneScape will be the first title to make the jump to mobile this winter, with RuneScape to follow at a later date. What’s more, …
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Hot off the heels of Oculus’ temporary price cut to its Rift headset last week, a report surfaced on Friday that the company might also be preparing an even cheaper model of the Riftas a kind of budget successor. Currently code-named ‘Pacific’, the headset will allegedly bridge the gap between …
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