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Microsoft has announced that Game Pass subscribers will be able to play their video game libraries with Xbox Cloud Gaming by the end of the year
Read More »Game Pass subscribers will soon be able to use their digital libraries on Xbox Cloud Gaming
Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard in $68.7bn deal
The biggest takeover in videogame history looks likely to see Call of Duty coming to Game Pass
Read More »Game Pass-style Humble Bundle app coming to indie-focused subscription service
Humble Choice pitches itself against PC Games Pass as the subscription service readies new launcher app to replace Trove
Read More »Zordix casts acquisition spell on Maximum Games. Succeeds for $42m
"The experience Maximum Games brings to the table enables us to scale tremendously, which of course means more exciting games on the horizon!"
Read More »Thunderful Games’ CEO Brjánn Sigurgeirsson and Agostino Simonetta on why the time is right for the indie supergroup to make itself known
“It’s the beginning of a great journey"
Read More »[ICYMI] Develop:Brighton’s keynote speaker will be Team17’s Debbie Bestwick – “We came together as an industry and supported each other in a way I’ve never seen in over three decades”
Bestwick discusses how the pandemic impacted Team17, the importance of in-person events, her keynote and her outlook on the industry’s future
Read More »EA suggests that it may drop FIFA brand
It's a rock and a hard place for EA, but it's the right thing to be at least considering a change
Read More »Warner Bros veteran Crossley partners with Heaven Media to launch Digital Matters Publishing
“This means treating indie developers like superstars and their games like global franchises"
Read More »Indie Showcase finalists announced for Develop:Brighton
"The final ten really impressed us with their inventiveness, top rate game-feel and stunning audio-visual design."
Read More »Technology and the market will set the cost of triple-A productions – it’s not an inevitable and negative escalation
The idea that the industry will stagnate because of rising costs is a historically flawed argument based on historical data
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