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Branch integration previews and rollback feature head improvement charge
Read More »"Mind blowing" growth for Xbox Live
Microsoft’s group product manager for Xbox 360 Aaron Greenberg has stated that the strong sales enjoyed by his firm’s console over the Christmas period has been mirrored by some equally impressive growth of the company’s Xbox Live digital platform. We saw year-over-year online consumer spending on Live grow 84 per …
Read More »Nintendo exploring automated gaming
Patent application reveals â??Kind Codeâ?? hand-holding system
Read More »One for All
David Lau-Kee, the new chairman of Unity, is best-known for his long-running stint at Criterion Software, which he founded and led until its eventual sale to Electronic Arts in 2004. What does this games technology veteran make of the state-of-play today, and where does Unity fit in?
Read More »Lau-Kee lands at Unity
Former Renderware chief becomes chairman of firm responsible for low-cost dev tools
Read More »Makeover on the cards for Lara Croft?
Eidos considers giving pneumatic Tomb Raider heroine a facelift
Read More »Lay-offs hit Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics
Around 30 staff at Lara Croft team let go as studio downsizes
Read More »The rise of the lo-fi
The march of media sometimes seems a long trudge upcountry from cave paintings and papyrus to the latest multiplex space opera.
Read More »Home Sweet Home – Part 2
We all know that Home provides a space for gamers to meet and launch into games - but there's much more. We caught up with the Home team to talk concretely about the money-making opportunities for developers, UGC and how it could be a new platform for smaller game development...
Read More »TOOL FOCUS: Perforce 2008.1
New visual comparison tool and enhanced remote and distributed features head up this new point release
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