Green Man Gaming has a new EVP of performance marketing

Sporting Index and QVC vet Paul Turner joins the digital retailer

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More than 350,000 people went to Gamescom 2017

Broke records for the Cologne-based trade fair, 919 companies from 54 countries attended

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The Escapists 2 debuts in third place in Steam Top Ten

Codemasters F1 2017 also goes straight to No.5

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Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds beats DOTA 2 concurrent player figures

How long before the battle royale title beats their peak player figures?

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3,000 people came to Devcom's debut

140 sessions with over 200 speakers took place over four days

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Brink goes free-to-play

Though there is little in the way of monetisation options

Bithell Games to publish The GameDev Business Handbook

Former games journo Mike Futter pens guide for sustainable game studios

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A former Valve writer might have just revealed Half Life 3 plot

Letter written by 'Gertie Fremont' sounds an awful lot like the next Half Life story

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Ubisoft reveals next entry in the Anno series

French firm pencils in 2018 release date for the city sim title

Sega studio Relic is making the next Age of Empires game

First entry in the series to not be handled by Ensemble

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Layoffs looking likely at SkySaga maker Radiant Worlds

Future of the studio looking unclear as SkySaga publisher Smilegate puts the project on hold

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Atomhawk opens shop in Canada

Vancouver office to be run by creative director Maurice KImball

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Final Fantasy XV is coming to PC next year

Launches with Nvidia GameWorks, which allows for fancy hair and shadow effects, among other things

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1m copies of Football Manager 2017 have been sold

Sports Interactive chief Miles Jacobson reveals this is the fifth Football Manager game in a row to hit this milestone

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There’s a Definitive Edition of ReCore on the way

HDR and 4K support added, set to launch on August 29th

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