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Alibaba investing in 1200 Chinese eSports events in 2016
AliSports division working with YuuZoo to establish WESG tournament and 20 Competition Centres this year alone
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Final Fantasy XV needs 10 million sales for success
[UPDATE]: After game director Hajime Tabata sets a sales target, Square Enix offers clarification on his intent
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Capcom unites mobile studios into single division
Capcom Mobile Co. promises "aggressive" use of popular IP in mobile games for global release
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Garena raises $170 million series D round
The Singapore startup has come along way since its origins as a multiplayer gaming network
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Square Enix backs Final Fantasy XV with feature-length movie
Sean Bean and Lena Heady star in CG animated film, FFXV will also get a web series and mobile game
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GameDuell pivots, cuts 25 per cent of staff
German developer shifts focus towards cross-platform card and board games
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Nintendo UK expands marketing and comms team
Matthias Hempfling and Kalpesh Tailor both take senior roles as they join from Frankfurt office
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"I want to go back to the thing I was born to do”
Shahid Ahmad on leaving "the best gig in video games" at PlayStation to embrace the uncertainties of life as an indie developer
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Jamchester pro game jam set for May
More than 200 developers expected to take part in Manchester event, ticket proceeds will go to Special Effect
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Spicy Horse cuts staff in move away from "brutal" F2P market
American McGee's Shanghai studio will continue with a core team, new projects to be announced soon
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Blizzard pulls "sexualised" victory pose from Overwatch
"This wasn't pandering or caving, though. This was the right call from our perspective"
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Oculus VR: Touch games "need more time"
Jason Rubin has pointed to software as the reason the Rift's hand-tracked controllers won't launch until later this year
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John Carmack to receive BAFTA Fellowship
id Software co-founder will join previous recipients Shigeru Miyamoto, Gabe Newell and Will Wright
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Sony plans to bring PlayStation IP to mobile
Newly minted ForwardWorks subsidary will make products for smartphone markets in Japan and Asia
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PS4 and Xbox One have sold 5.1 million units in the UK
Game Digital's data puts this generation 45 per cent ahead of PS3 and Xbox 360 at the same point
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Fove VR raises $11 million from Colopl, Hon Hai
Japanese company specialising in eye-tracking tech will go into full production later this year
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Oculus: "We don't believe the consumer has space" for room-scale VR
Jason Rubin explains why the Vive's key feature is not an important aspect of the Rift's messaging
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Bigpoint to be acquired by Youzu
Chinese firm will buy all available stock in the German free-to-play company for €80 million
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Scribblenauts studio 5th Cell lays off 45 people
Drastic measures required following Warner Bros.' cancellation of new Scribblenauts title
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GDC panel says that, in games, "Muslim blood is cheap"
Islam is too often used as a source of trouble and villainy, but diversity could help to redress the balance
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Firewatch has sold 500,000 units since launch
Panic Inc. recouped its investment in a single day, wants to partner with Campo Santo on another project
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Tencent cleared $3 billion smartphone game revenue in 2015
Giant Chinese firm earned almost $16 billion during the calendar year overall
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Creative Assembly Game Jam to return to EGX Rezzed
Teams of five will follow in the footsteps of Spilt Milk's Tango Fiesta at the GamesIndustry.biz Career Fair in April
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ex-Konami producer Dave Cox teams up with MercurySteam
Cox is working with his old Castlevania colleagues on its, "most ambitious game as an independent developer"