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Green Man Gaming has announced a brand-new partnership with Intel that will see the company’s award-winning patented technology power Intel’s newly-launched, self-service b2b marketplace, theIntel Software Distribution Hub (SDH). The Intel SDH will allow hundreds of Intel’s channel partners to be matched with PC game publishers, allowing them to create …

The developer behind Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is going dark for a while, the studio has confirmed. The Chinese Room isn’t shutting down completely, director Dan Pinchbeck reassured fans in a blog post on the company’s website, but it won’t be actively working on any specified …

Destiny 2 has claimed its third UK No.1 in the weekly charts, beating new entries Project CARS 2 and Pokken Tournament DX to the punch. Sales were down 47 per cent week-on-week for Activision’s online shooter, but it was still enough for the publisher to claim itseleventh No.1 this year, …

The developers behind Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds have called out the recently-announced battle royale mode in Epic Games’ Fornite as being too similar to its own survival shooter title. Concerns have been raised over the gameplay, UI and structure of the Fortnite’s battle royale mode, but Bluehole Inc has stressed that the …

Ukie and the VSC Rating Board have re-launched age rating site, AskAboutGames.com. The two organisations will jointly run and fund the website, which contains information about PEGI age ratings, online safety insight, advice on family-friendly games and tips on how to use parental controls effectively. Heading up the newly re-launched …

Konami’s PES 2018 beat a number of new releases to the top of the Japanese charts last week, including Nintendo’s Metroid: Samus Returns and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, according to the latest figures from Famitsu. The PS4 version of the game shifted over 69,000 units in its first week on …

Ukie has announced its new board of directors for 2017-18, with Revolution Software’s owner and COO Noirin Carmody acting as chair, Playmob’s chairman Ian Livingstone CBE as vice chair, and Take-Two Interactive’s senior director of sales UK and export Dave Gould as treasurer. The Ukie board is made up of …

HTC Vive is to boost the amount of revenue share developers receive on its global Viveport store to celebrate its one-year anniversary, the company has announced. This is in addition to a swathe of new features for developers that will be rolling out very soon. From October until the end …

A new fundraising initiative to support seven worldwide gaming charities is to take place this weekend. Dubbed the One Gamer Fund, all money raised over the next three days will then be shared between the supported organisations, which include AbleGamers, Child’s Play, Games for Change, Global Game Jam, IGDA Foundation, …

Nintendo is to publish Ubisoft’s Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle in both Japan and Korea next year, Ubisoft has announced. The game, whichhas now become the best-selling third party game on the Nintendo Switch,will release in both territories on January 18th 2018. Developed by Ubisoft Milan and Ubisoft Paris, Mario …