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MCV can today reveal that the UK video games market generated 3.944bn in consumer spending during 2014. The number is 13 per cent higher than 2013’s figure, when the UK market reached 3.48bn. This year’s data was calculated by MCV with trade body Ukie and a number of key data …
Read More »John Carmack to discuss the dawn of mobile VR at GDC
id Software co-founder to share his thoughts on best development practices and future of the tech
Read More »Creative England secures £8m in government funding
Money will be used to boost creative industries and generate jobs across games, TV, film and more
Read More »ESL releases matchmaking devkit to debut in WipEout spiritual successor
The biggest eSports league in the world, ESL, has released a white label development toolkit called ESL Matchmaking. The tool, to be first used in UK indie developer R8 Games’ upcoming anti-gravity racer, Formula Fusion, will allow competitive-grade ranked multiplayer matchmaking. The game, hailed as a spiritual successor to the …
Read More »Nintendo ‘still in denial about Wii U failure’, analyst claims
Analyst Michael Pachter has continued his long-running criticism of Nintendo with another scathing attack against the platform holder. I think that they are still in denial about the Wii U failure,” he told Game Informer. You keep seeing this stat so we’re up 82 per cent – yeah, 40,000 units …
Read More »Fates Forever dev secures funding from Tencent and Benchmark
OpenFeint founder's studio wants to reach one billion players
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Gabrielle Kent
Kent is deputy head of the games department at Teesside University, as well as director of the Animex Festival. While studying Illustration in 1997, Kent undertook a placement working on Shadowman at Acclaim and realised her future lay in games. After graduating, she joined the Pitbull Syndicate, going on to …
Read More »Discover how PlayBuff added gesture controls to its driving game
Intel Developer Blog: Why the developer used Intel RealSense to enable gesture and voice commands
Read More »Layoffs hit Daybreak Game Company (formerly known as SOE)
Rebranded developer Daybreak Game Company has cjob losses at its San Diego and Austin studios. It was announced last week that Daybreak was the new name for Sony Online Entertainment, following its acquisition by Columbus Nova. To better position our newly independent studio for future growth opportunities and to deliver …
Read More »Minecraft beats out GTA for top gaming franchise on Youtube
A new study on YouTube gaming franchises draws one inevitable conclusion: There’s Minecraft, and there’s everyone else. NewZoo and Octoly’s infographic (shown below) ranks the top 20 gaming franchises on the popular video-sharing website, and it’s little surprise to see Mojang’s title out in front. Research also shows that 96.6 …
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