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Developer Firaxis has confirmed a release date for Sid Meier’s Starships. The game will be released on PC, Mac and iPad on March 12th, PC Gamer reports. It has a US price of $15, with the UK price having yet to be announced. The game, announced last month, is being …
Read More »Develop apps for Android Lollipop and Nexus Player with Intel INDE
Intel Developer Blog: A look at the latest updates to the tool
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: February 15-21
The launch of Total War: Attila has propelled the title to number one on this week’s Steam top ten sellers chart. H1Z1 and Grand Theft Auto V (pre-orders) continue to occupy spots near the top of the list – this week finishing in second and third, respectively. Chart regulars Counter-Strike: …
Read More »The Stomping Land designer quits as Kickstarter game looks dead and buried
Kickstarter has received another PR blow with what appears to be the abandonment of another successfully funded game. Vlad Konstantinov, who was responsible for the game’s dinosaur models, has quit work on the game after lead developer Alex ‘Jig’ Fundora stopped communicating with him. I’m sad to say this but …
Read More »Steam chat is censoring links to a torrent site
Valve appears to be automatically monitoring the blocking the content of some Steam chat. Torrent Freak reports that mentions of KickassTorrents made via Steam’s in-built instant messaging tool are not delivered to their intended recipient. However, rather than censoring out the name of the site the message itself is completely …
Read More »Over 2m Minecraft books were sold in the UK last year
Books based on video games were worth 14.5m in 2014, a rise of almost 10m year-on-year. Book tracker Nielsen revealed this massive increase in sales was down to the incredible success of Minecraft books. Minecraft strategy books and annuals made up seven places in the Top Ten books based on …
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 »Analysis: Mobile and online prop up the TV ad space in 2014
Henry Degnin, digital account manager at Generation Media, examines how mobile and online properties kept the TV advertising market afloat last year 2014 was a progressive year for the games and consoles TV advertising market with TV ad pressure rising 16 per cent (in terms of individual TV viewer ratings) …
Read More »Valve tells developers: Stop exchanging game keys for Greenlight votes
‘You put us in a really uncomfortable position’
Read More »Bossa Studios reveals Worlds Adrift
Surgeon Simulator developer Bossa Studios has unveiled its atmospheric open-world adventure game, Worlds Adrift. Bossa made news earlier this month, when its debut title Surgeon Simulator reached 2m sales. The team – which is also in the midst of developing its Steam Early Access release and upcoming mobile effort I …
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