Publishing

It’s not all about Call of Duty for Activision this Christmas, as it believes a new Spyro game could become ‘the next big thing.’ The firm is planning to spend big on Skylanders: Spyro Adventure, a unique game that interacts with a range of toys. A series of bundles are …

Call of Duty: Black Ops has become the biggest selling game in UK games market history, GfK ChartTrack has just confirmed. The game was released in November last year and has already leapfrogged sister title Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to claim the top spot. It’s cumulative UK sales …

Excessive LA Noire workload 'absolutely unacceptable' says IGDA

We profile Havok Mobile, Kinect, Kinect Sports, Path of Go AI, PlayStation Move, Razor for Vita and the Unreal Engine

Mark Rein explains what Direct X brings to the table for Unreal Engine developers

To help developers prepare their rough draft video submission entries for the GameCast Contest, MoMinis has put together an example of what they should look like. It demonstrates the concept, gameplay, input methods, objects, among other interesting features of a game that make it unique. Remember, the rough draft version …

Yes, but does it work? OnLive CEO Steve Perlman hopes, and maybe even believes, that he’s heard that question for the last time. Actually, that’s not true, he may one day ask it himself, about rival – but yet to be launched – cloud gaming service, Gakai, possibly yelled mischievously …

Microsoft has announced a partnership with BMW that will see its upcoming 2012 M5 model appear first in Forza 4. Those who buy the 59.99 Limited Collector’s Edition will also gain access to 25 additional cars, with the 2012 M5 appearing as the cover star of the SKU – which …

Microsoft is confident that Kinect owners will come to accept the upcoming NUads, unfazed by early negative feedback. The format holder announced its new Natural User-Interface Ads platform last week. The system allows consumers to interact with certain ads using Kinect – something that aggravated the Xbox 360 fanbase. Speaking …

In a rare interview, Sony group SN Systems explains to Develop how it's making PS Vita as easy to as possible to build games for