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Chrome's Dino-Runner game is four years old today
Read More »What game is four years old, has 270m monthly players and yet makes no money whatsoever?
Eve Online dev CCP Games acquired by Pearl Abyss
CCP Games was acquired for $425m but will “continue to operate independently”
Read More »Julian Gollop: How Facebook is keeping the cash rolling in for Phoenix Point
The godfather of turn-based strategy Julian Gollop talks about funding, feature creep and the advantages of making Phoenix Point in Eastern Europe
Read More »PSVR has sold 3m units worldwide to date – but is it enough?
Sony also reveals total titles sold and Top 10 most-played titles
Read More »Go Go Coatsink: VR developer talks about developing for Oculus Go
The Sunderland-based VR specialist, on its VR title: They Suspect Nothing
Read More »Epic launches tutorial platform Unreal Engine Online Learning
The online learning platform is completely free and aims to help developers master Unreal Engine
Read More »Unity on finding the ‘magic bit in the middle’ of movies and games
We talk to Cinemachine creator, and now Unity’s head of cinematics, Adam Myhill about CG, the benefits of real time for film production and finding “this magic bit in the middle” of movies and games
Read More »Sumo Group acquires The Chinese Room, developer of Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Sumo branches out from work-for-hire with acquisition of award-winning, Brighton-based indie studio
Read More »YoYo Games launches open beta for Nintendo Switch version of GameMaker Studio 2
The open beta phase of the GameMaker Studio 2 Nintendo Switch licence will last for about a month, with the full product due to launch this September
Read More »Selective memories: How We Happy Few’s developers dealt with growing up in the spotlight
We Happy Few is about self-deception, but was its fanbase also guilty of only seeing what they wanted in the game? We talk to Compulsion Games' narrative director Alex Epstein about the game, its evolution in public and the studio’s acquisition by Microsoft
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