Game development news

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

A year on from our first encounter, procedural city middleware company Gamr7 is almost ready for action

Premature reveal forced team to refocus on gamer audience

Now in open beta, Sonyâ??s Home is a known quantity for gamers â?? but what does it really mean for developers? Ed Fear sat down with the team behind the project to find out why developers should be excited about the possibilities in its new social space for PS3 gamersâ?¦