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Konami will be doing more in the mobile games market, but it is not abandoning its console business. This comes from a fully translated version of the Nikkei interview with Konami president Hideki Hayakawa. A summary of the interview had already been translated earlier this month, and it seemed to …

It’s a challenging time to work in QA and localisation. As well as the triple-A developers and publishers wrestling with the new tech found within the PS4 and Xbox One, there’s a slew of mobile and indie developers coming to market almost every week. And although these studios might know …

Music giant Spotify is launching video and podcasts on its service, but not video games. The streaming behemoth announced it would be adding podcasts, curated radio shows, plus news and entertainment video clips from the likes of BBC, Comedy Central, Maker Studios and ESPN at a press conference in New …

Epic Games offers a glimpse at the first recipients of its $5m Unreal Dev Grants

Andrew House, the president of the PlayStation business, says the company will go after more third-party exclusives for PS4 this year. The move is designed to counter what House calls a ‘sparse’ line-up of first-party games. When he says exclusives, he doesn’t necessarily mean complete exclusives. We were able to …

Developer working on PS4 title Amazing Discoveries in Outer Space

Team wants to crowdfund $150,000 to develop narrative-driven horror game

Team working on tech to generate realistic worlds in the virtual space

The Halo 3 spin-off ODST will be released on Xbox One on May 29th. The game will join the Master Chief Collection, which also includes Halo 1, 2, 3 and 4. ODST was announced late last year as compensation for gamers that suffered from the Master Chief Collection’s troubled launch …

Develop asks why this new update is such a big deal for artists and just what new features it houses