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Media giant Vivendi has increased the amount of stock it holds in games publisher Ubisoft. The firm announced via its corporate website that it now owns 20.1 per cent of Ubisoft shares. Vivendi also holds 17.76 per cent of Ubisoft voting rights. Furthermore, the firm has said it is not …
Read More »Paradox’s Wester on Cities: Skylines, Stellaris and a record-breaking 2015
Paradox has been around since 1999 but it’s only recently that the Swedish firm has reached mainstream attention. Its stock has risen so much that Chinese games giant Tencent recently took a five per cent stake in the firm for 286m. In March 2015, Paradox released Cities: Skylines, a title …
Read More »ReCore devs detail dynamic symbol-based colourblind mode
‘It's very important to keep [accessibility] in mind and have a solution,’ says Armature game director Mark Pacini
Read More »Inafune says launch version of Mighty No.9 ‘is better than nothing’
It’s better than nothing”. That’s the assessment of Keiji Inafune following the damning critical reception of his new platformer Mighty No.9. The reviews for the game have not been kind, with the title currently carrying a Metacritic rating of 60 per cent. There has also been some frustration about the …
Read More »Develop Awards 2016: The Finalists – New IP: Console/PC
As the countdown begins to this year's event, we run through the hopeful studios and the games that could earn them our coveted awards
Read More »Chris Smith and Paul Andrews step down from Retro Computers
Two of the directors of Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega Plus firm Retro Computers have resigned. Chris Smith (pictured far right) and Paul Andrews (pictured right) have stepped down from the firm due to ‘irreconcilable differences’ between them and the last remaining director, David Levy. A statement released on Smith and …
Read More »TinyBuild says G2A’s ‘fraud economy’ has cost it $450k
Indie developer TinyBuild has revealed that it lost nearly half a million dollars in sales for its games to key selling website G2A. Detailing the Punch Club, SpeedRunners and Party Hard creator’s dealings with the grey code marketplace on itsblog, TinyBuild’s Alex Nichiporchik posted figures based on numbers released by …
Read More »Women in Games new CEO on how she intends to improve diversity in the industry
As the new CEO of Women in Games, Marie-Claire Isaaman hopes to be part of the movement leading to gender equality in the games industry. But actually she has already done her fair share of work to improve diversity, as a researcher and education consultant in games at the Norwich …
Read More »Integrate gesture controls into your next app
Intel Developer Blog: How RealSense helps VR devs track hand movements
Read More »Huni: ‘When I played League at first, I was bronze’
When I sat down with Immortals’ top laner Heo "Huni" Seung-hoon for a post-game interview, it started like any other. The charismatic import from Korea talked about his team’s victory over the rookie upstarts from Team Envy, saying how "crazy" game two of the series was. After a number of …
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