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There’s no doubt that video games talent runs in the Woolley family – both Charlotte and her twin sister Catherine made it into the Top 100 Women in Games. For Charlotte, her career as a passionate tester began just under five years ago at Testology. As she puts it: My …
Read More »DirectX 12 boosts frames per second by 600% on AMD hardware
An early look at Microsoft’s DirectX 12 graphics API has shown that AMD graphics cards – and potentially Xbox One – could be in line for a significant performance boost. An analysis over at Anandtech shows that AMD’s flagship R9 290X GPU enjoyed a near 600 per cent boost from …
Read More »Disrupt yourself: Staying relevant in a fast-changing industry
Team17's Debbie Bestwick on why adding new skills can help keep you at the forefront of new trends
Read More »Tablets could overtake console power in three year’s time, EA says
The acceleration of tablet power will broaden the market appeal of core game, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen has said. "What gets us the most excited is the power, the computing power, of mobile devices and the speed at which that’s growing," he told the 2015 Technology, Internet & Media Conference, …
Read More »EA: Tablets will overtake consoles
Publisher's CFO Blake Jorgensen believes tablets could become more powerful than dedicated games devices
Read More »Deep Silver signs publishing deal with mobile studio Isbit Games
Publisher to fund development of two new titles
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Sophia George
Like so many of the individuals in the Top 100 Women in Games, Sophia George’s games industry career was kicked into action by her outstanding work as a student. Stimulated by the inspiring games she explored while growing up, George wanted to work in the games industry from a young …
Read More »Anita Sarkeesian skin is coming to TowerFall
The next set of character skins for indie combat game TowerFall will include a homage to Feminist Frequency creator Anita Sarkeesian. If you keep up on gaming news she may seem familiar – her appearance is loosely based on feminist games critic Anita Sarkeesian,” the studio said of the character. …
Read More »Valve opens virtual item economy to all Steam games
Valve has rolled out the Steam Inventory Service in beta, allowing game developers the option to create in-game items that can be traded and sold throughout the greater Steam Marketplace. A post on Steam News details the pre-release launch of the new feature set: With this service, a game can …
Read More »EA, Bioware cancel Shadow Realms
Bioware has announced its episodic, co-operative PC game Shadow Realms is no longer in development. Bioware Austin general manager Jeff Hickman confirmed the cancellation of the game today in an update on Shadow Realms’ official site. "While the team did amazing work on the game concept and we got lots …
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