Xbox’s Spencer joins Microsoft senior leadership team

"Thanks to everyone for the very nice comments today, great show of commitment by MS to the Gaming opportunity, proud to be part of this team"

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EA’s Andrew Wilson joins Intel board of directors

“Andrew understands first-hand how technology and data create opportunity with his transformation of EA from offline packaged goods to a leader in online digital services"

Steam adds graphs to user reviews, hopes that this will solve review bomb woes

Blog post highlights the precarious position Valve has left itself in

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Hotline Miami, Akira and Polish history: Reikon tells us about cyberpunk action game Ruiner

Narrative designer Magdalena Tomkowicz tells us how

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Deceit dev Automaton raises $10m, teams up with Improbable for new project

Once again, the SpatialOS firm steps in to help a small team do an ambitious MMO

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Gearbox winds down work on Battleborn

Creative director Randy Varnell announces end of updates for the shooter, but servers to remain online for 'foreseeable future'

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505 Games announces partnership with Might & Magic and Tropico 6 studio Limbic

“The team at Limbic is pushing the limits of the online multiplayer survival genre, putting a fresh spin on an emergent game world and an innovative character progression"

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Bossa hires ex-Valve writer Chet Faliszek

Portal and Half Life Episodes One and Two scribe joins East London studio

Divinity: Original Sin 2 has sold nearly 500,000 copies

Title reaches half million mark after just a few years; it took its predecessor two or three months to reach this milestone

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Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds dethrones DOTA 2 with 1.3m peak concurrent player count

Title has sold 10m units and doesn't look like it's slowing down yet

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Kickstarter RPG Divinity: Original Sin 2 debuts in second place in Steam Top Ten

Title boasts 85k peak concurrent players after raising more than $2m on the crowd-funding platform

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Bleszinski: I have to keep LawBreakers alive

“I’m going to try and be less of a dick, honestly”

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PlayStack explains its end-to-end publishing model

After publishing mobile and VR releases, the publisher has some PC projects in the work

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New president and CEO for Telltale Games

Zynga, EA and Criterion exec takes the top job at the narrative-focused firm

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Report: Steam Direct sees releases double, but average sales and revenue dip

Data from Steam Spy highlights how Steam Direct has affected the market

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