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Titanfall battle royale game Apex Legends attracted 10m people in first three days News Feb 8th, 2019

Titanfall battle royale game Apex Legends attracted 10m people in first three days

Developer Respawn boasts of one million concurrent player peak

Warface studio Crytek Kiev goes indie, rebrands as Blackwood Games News Feb 7th, 2019

Warface studio Crytek Kiev goes indie, rebrands as Blackwood Games

Ukranian developer is the seventh branch of the middleware and games firm to get the cut in five years

Take-Two isn't interested in launching its own store News Feb 7th, 2019

Take-Two isn't interested in launching its own store

Rockstar parent firm says it wants to be in as many places where consumers are as possible

Updated: Apex Legends had close to 3m unique users in first 24 hours News Feb 5th, 2019

Updated: Apex Legends had close to 3m unique users in first 24 hours

Developer Respawn says this is what the studio is working on for the time being

Report: CS:GO played by 17 per cent of core PC gamers globally following battle royale addition and shift to free-to-play News Jan 24th, 2019

Report: CS:GO played by 17 per cent of core PC gamers globally following battle royale addition and shift to free-to-play

Newzoo records a rise of 39.3 per cent month-on-month

Splash Damage removes monetisation options from Dirty Bomb News Jan 9th, 2019

Splash Damage removes monetisation options from Dirty Bomb

Follows studio saying it was halting development on the project

World of Tanks firm Wargaming snaps up Fractured Space firm Edge Case Games Job News Nov 27th, 2018

World of Tanks firm Wargaming snaps up Fractured Space firm Edge Case Games

32-person team working on an unannounced new MMO IP

Creative Assembly and Wargaming team-up Total War Arena is being shut down News Nov 23rd, 2018

Creative Assembly and Wargaming team-up Total War Arena is being shut down

Open beta didn't meet expectations

Edge Case Games is halting work on Fractured Space News Oct 29th, 2018

Edge Case Games is halting work on Fractured Space

"It's been an amazing and emotional journey"

Dreadnought developer makes a third of its staff redundant after launch Job News Oct 23rd, 2018

Dreadnought developer makes a third of its staff redundant after launch

Six Foot informed staff of financial troubles as early as August

Three years and more than 28m players later, what has Wargaming learnt running World of Warships? Interviews & Opinion Sep 18th, 2018

Three years and more than 28m players later, what has Wargaming learnt running World of Warships?

European publisher director Rajeev Girdhar talks running a service-based game, how the team approaches free-to-play and working across multiple platforms

Updated: LawBreakers servers have been taken online News Sep 18th, 2018

Updated: LawBreakers servers have been taken online

Two months after the game was axed

Athlon Games is developing a new free-to-play Lord of the Rings MMORPG News Sep 5th, 2018

Athlon Games is developing a new free-to-play Lord of the Rings MMORPG

LA studio is partnering with an undisclosed developer to create a triple-A quality online game

You can now play (a very limited version of) Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for free News Aug 31st, 2018

You can now play (a very limited version of) Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for free

Free players are restricted to bot matches and spectating other players’ games

Faeria’s Jean-Michel Vilain: “In a lot of ways we felt like we were breaking new ground” Feature Aug 29th, 2018

Faeria’s Jean-Michel Vilain: “In a lot of ways we felt like we were breaking new ground”

Belgian studio explains its decision to move away from free-to-play

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