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Moving out of retail gives developers more flexibility, says Epic boss
Read More »[Update] Holtman latest to leave in Valve twist, says source
Examination of employee list shows eight more potential departures
Read More »Google offers HTML5 dev course on Udacity
Free online program teaches how to build a game in JavaScript
Read More »Microsoft Spotlight: Chimpact
Yippee on how the iOS hit gracefully swung to the Windows Store
Read More »164 more Blockbuster stores to close
Administrators Deloitte has announced it will close a further 164 Blockbuster stores. The stores are part of a phased closure and closing down promotions will be run across the shops. 324 Blockbusters stores are now up for closure, leaving around 200 outlets. The remaining stores will remain open while administrators …
Read More »Creating offline applications with HTML5
Intel Developer Blog: Christoph Jechlitschek offers advice on using HTML5 caching features
Read More »EA admits that Medal of Honor: Warfighter was not good enough, but series will be back
Medal of Honor may have been taken out of rotation”, but expect to see more of the series in the future. Last month EA confirmed that the series has been shelved with the intention being to make Battlefield a Call of Duty-rivalling annual series. Yet despite claiming in October that …
Read More »Valve fires hardware engineer Jeri Ellsworth
Steam Box controller prototype staffer exits studio after just over a year
Read More »Of course Gearbox made Aliens: Colonial Marines, Sega insists
Gearbox did not hand over the development of Aliens: Colonial Marines’ single player mode to TimeGate, Sega has insisted. The claims arrived yesterday amidst the twitter and forum storm that followed the lifting of the review embargo for the game – that itself revealed what can best be described as …
Read More »Used games can be good for industry, says EA CFO
What's good for retail helps publishers argues Blake Jorgensen
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