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The UK games industry’s Golf and Spa Day will return on Thursday, July 14th. The event is back for a ninth year at the The Grove in Watford, with profits donated to games industry charity GamesAid. Those working in the games sector, consumer electronics, movies, music and other associated businesses, …
Read More »Development halted on Kickstarted Unsung Story
Having raised $660k over two years ago, the future of Yasumi Matsuno’s successfully Kickstarted RPG Unsung Hero looks incredibly uncertain. The game was originally due to be released in July 2015. A delay until late 2016 – and a change of direction for the gamplay – caused much consternation last …
Read More »The REAL Russian games industry
You’re wrong about Russia. We might be jumping to conclusions, but you probably think of Russia as a games market ruled by PC, with Counter-Strike and World of Tanks the most popular titles and piracy flowing as freely as vodka. That may have been accurate once, but Russia has since …
Read More »GameTrailers closing after 13 years
The original home of online games videos is closing down today. The news has been confirmed by the site, as well as editor-in-Chief Brandon Jones on Twitter and associate editor Ben Moore on Neogaf. When GameTrailers was founded in 2002, internet video was a revolutionary concept,” a statement on the …
Read More »What’s trending in IoT? Discover the most popular developer stories
Our latest Intel Developer Blog explores the possibilities of the Internet of Things
Read More »Mad Catz CEO, chairman and senior VP step down ahead of earnings report
Rock Band 4 co-publisher Mad Catz has experienced a day of significant upheaval ahead of the publication of its latest financials. Long standing president and CEO Darren Richardson, chairman Thomas Brown and senior vice president of business affairs Whitney Peterson have all resigned. CFO Karen McGinnis replaces Richardson, who has …
Read More »Financial trouble forces Playdek to freeze Unsung Story development
RPG from Final Fantasy and Vagrant Story director Yasumi Matsuno crowdfunded $660,000 in 2014
Read More »Examiner Exclusive: Evolve Labs’ Adam Sellke talks eSports
National Video Games Examiner chats with Evolve Labs Founder Adam Sellke, who discusses the impact ofeSportson pop culture and what the future holds for the continually growing platform and its hopes to hit a more mainstream audience. The founder/ co-founder of several startups (Surtsey, Madoi, Ripshark, Tunebloom, Evolve Labs and …
Read More »PC piracy giant calls it quits
One of the largest Chinese piracy groups has said that it has stopped cracking single-player PC games. 3DM was in the press last month having claimed that, thanks to improvements to PC game security, it feared PC piracy may be a thing of the past within two years. Now Torrentfreak …
Read More »DreamHack Bucharest shifts focus to CS:GO with September’s $100,000 tournament
The latest announcement for DreamHack’s ZOWIE Open series of tournaments in Bucharest confirms CS:GO is the headline tournament. DreamHack Bucharest will take place September 16-18 in the same venue as last year’s event, the Polyvalent Hall, with a $100,000 prize pool for the final eight teams to fight over. It …
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