Game development news

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?

Former Renderware chief becomes chairman of firm responsible for low-cost dev tools

Eidos considers giving pneumatic Tomb Raider heroine a facelift

Around 30 staff at Lara Croft team let go as studio downsizes

The march of media sometimes seems a long trudge upcountry from cave paintings and papyrus to the latest multiplex space opera.

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...

New visual comparison tool and enhanced remote and distributed features head up this new point release

14 staff made redundant, but it's 'business as usual' at Banbury office

NaturalMotion's animation tech now 'tightly' coupled with Emergent's engine

Free expansion, boxed release, â??New Player Experienceâ?? and concurrent user record