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Angry Birds creators Rovio says it is crucial that parents are made aware of the costs in free-to-play games. The firm’s comments come after an OFT investigation, which found that developers and platform holders must ensure users – particularly parents and children – are made aware of in-game costs. Rovio …
Read More »Report: Sony to unveil PS4 virtual reality headset at GDC
Console giant has 'deliberately taken its time to tweak and polish the headset before revealing it'
Read More »How do you sell a ‘menace’ like Dark Souls II?
A game like Dark Souls has no right to be talked about in the same breath as Skyrim. An incredibly difficult Japanese RPG sounds as niche as it gets, yet Namco Bandai’s series has become a hit. The spiritual successor to PS3 favourite Demons Souls, Dark Souls launched in 2011 …
Read More »GAME and Nintendo on the hunt for UK’s best Pokemon player
The Nintendo Pokemon X and Pokemon Y Battle Tournament 2014 has been officially announced. It kicks off on March 1st and takes place at a number of UK shopping centres – beginning in Birmingham’s Bullring and at GAME Brighton. The winners of both Expert (13 years and over) and Junior …
Read More »Get That Job: How to be an associate art director
Codemasters's Daniel Oxford discusses the key skills needed for his role in art
Read More »Abertay Uni opens Europe’s largest PlayStation teaching lab
Europe’s largest teaching laboratory with access to PlayStation development kits has been opened today at Abertay University in Dundee. Abertay’s has now permanently installed 30 new PlayStation Vita development kits, adding to its existing stock of PS3 and PS4 dev kits. And students have access to all of the hardware …
Read More »Sony to reveal PlayStation VR headset at GDC – report
An Oculus Rift-rivalling virtual reality headset from Sony will be revealed next month. That’s according to TechRadar, which claims to have word from an inside source” that Sony will present the new hardware at GDC 2014 in San Francisco on March 17th. Said the source: "The quality and resolution are …
Read More »Phoenix Online turns publisher, to focus on story-driven games
Phoenix Online Studios, most recently known for its episodic adventure series Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, is expanding into game publishing with the formation of Phoenix Online Publishing. Phoenix Online is co-founded by Vitek Goyel, who also heads PixelTek, a games development services company based in Mumbai. Phoenix Online Publishing …
Read More »Tony Hawk and Activision working on new game
Publisher confirms series revival in the offing
Read More »Emily Greer named as Kongregate CEO
Online games portal Kongregate has named Emily Greer as its new CEO, effective February 28th. Current incumbent, brother Jim Greer, is stepping down from his role to help launch a not-for-profit political action organisation. Jim Greer will continue on at the company as head of technology part-time. Develop has the …
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