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The average internet user from anywhere in the world enjoys a connection speed of 3.1Mbps. That’s according to a new report from Akamai entitled The State of the Internet. It’s the first time the global average has surpassed 3Mbps. The global peak speed averages out at 18.4Mbps. The UK misses …
Read More »Valve ‘fully aware’ of Steam Greenlight issues
Voting platform not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, says Tom Bui
Read More »The Develop 100 is out this Friday – check out our retrospective here
The Develop 100 has been published since 2005, and over eight years has chronicled the world’s top studios based on a variety of different metrics. We have analysed the top studios around the world through criteria such as UK retail revenues, reputation, review scores, general standing in the industry and …
Read More »EA: Current-gen sports games pre-orders are "soft" owing to nearing next-gen
Publisher EA has predicted a slight dip in annual sales of its key sports IPs thanks to the upcoming transition to next-gen consoles. Furthermore, EA president and COO Peter Moore described pre-orders for current-gen EA Sports titles as soft” in a call with investors last night. We’re seeing softness, in …
Read More »Call of Duty dev told he deserves to die for releasing game-balancing patch
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 design director David Vonderhaar has received death threats regarding tweaks made to weapon balancing in the game’s most recent patch. Let’s put that into perspective. A developer of video games has made some minor alterations to how three weapons behave in said video game. …
Read More »Kids’ TV show Knightmare to return
Enter, stranger! A bygone favourite of children’s TV is to make a one-off return for YouTube’s Geek Week next month. The Guardian reports that Knightmare, popular in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, is one of many popular shows and IPs that will make a temporary return. It will be …
Read More »Revenue up and profit down as Apple posts growing iPhone sales and declining iPad numbers
Apple has posted higher than expected profit amidst growing sales of its iPhone 5. Net profit hit $6.9bn, a 22 per cent year-on-year decline compared to same quarter last year. Revenue grew slightly from $35bn last year to $35.5bn. Average sale price fell from $608 to $581. It sold 31.2m …
Read More »HTML5 Development Environment – what’s new this summer?
Intel Developer Blog: Softtalkblog lists new improvements coming to its HTML5 toolset
Read More »FIFA Ultimate Team data CAN be carried from current to next-gen
EA has announced that those who buy into the current-gen FIFA 14 launch in September will not lose their Ultimate Team progress if they go next-gen. FIFA 14 launches on all manner of platforms (although not Wii U, remember) on September 27th. However, a shiny new Frostbite-powered next-gen versions will …
Read More »Lack of games jobs forcing Netherlands graduates abroad
National industry cannot support the influx of university graduates, devs say
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