Graphics card specialist Nvidia has teamed up with PC case manufacturer Bitfenix to offer a range of compact performance gaming PCs. The GeForce GTX Edition Small Form Factor PCs house, as you would expect, GeForce GPUs along with Intel Core i5 or i7 CPUs housed in a custom Nvidia Bitfenix …
Read More »Devs abandon Steam Greenlight title Towns
Towns, which was Greenlit on Steam over a year and a half ago, has been cut adrift by its developers. It was one of the first titles to pass through the Greenlight system and would in today’s day and age likely be an Early Access title on Steam’s service. At …
Read More »Oculus envisions VR MMO with 1bn people
Oculus VR’s future plans include the possibility of an MMO that would simultaneously support 1bn players, CEO Brendan Iribe revealed during technology conference TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014. The unbelievable number is only possible, Iribe explains, thanks to the company’s recent $2bn Facebook deal – though the executive admits the technology …
Read More »New EVE Online FPS Project Legion in development for PC
CCP has revealed a new first-person shooter from the same team working on its free-to-play console multiplayer game Dust 514. The new title will build on the ideas of the console shooter and expand on them.CCP exec producer Jean-Charles Gaudechon said the new game would offer more of a sandbox …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: April 27 – May 3
Dark Souls II has bumped DayZ off its presumed throne on this week’s Steam top sellers chart, grabbing the top spot in its second week out from launch. DayZ didn’t fall far, still selling enough copies during the period to take the runner-up position. A Star Wars series sale has …
Read More »How Steam Early Access revolutionised publishing
One of the biggest successes at the end of last year and the start of this one was not a triple-A title. It was not polished to a mirror sheen and had not benefitted from a huge marketing push. Rather it was an unfinished zombie game from a studio based …
Read More »Building apps for #IntelAndroid tablets
Intel Developer Blog: How the Intel Mobile Development Kit for Android can help you make your apps
Read More »Ouya’s best-selling game has sold 7,000 copies
Towerfall is the Ouya’s best-selling game, but sales numbers paint a disappointing picture for the Android console. The game’s developer Matt Thorson told Eurogamer that the former Ouya exclusive sold approximately 7,000 copies on the machine, saying: "Being the best game on Ouya isn’t a huge deal, but it is …
Read More »Cousins leaves Scattered to become F2P consultant
Ben Cousins has left Scattered Entertainment to pursue a job as a free-to-play games consultant. The former EA Easy general manager joined the Swedish outfit in 2011 as GM. Cousins also held the role of head of European Game Studios for the developer’s owner DeNA.Scattered co-founder Senta Jakobsen will now …
Read More »Steam removes need for publishers, says DayZ creator
Valve’s Early Access store eliminates the need for a publisher, at least according to DayZ developer Dean Hall. The platform allows studios to sell unfinished games with the aim of funding their full development. Hall feels that consumers are serving the role of a publisher, paying for a title’s development …
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