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GoW: Chains of Olympus and Daxter developer to use texturing middleware for next-gen debut
Read More »AMD shelves Close To Metal
Ditches proprietary GPGPU solution; to support DX11 and OpenCL in future
Read More »NVISION 08 keynotes announced
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and Oddworld's Lorne Lanning to appear at event
Read More »EA continues cross-media talent push for Dead Space
Hires renowned comic author Warren Ellis for 'groundwork' on sci-fi survival horror game
Read More »Universally Speaking grows a pair
Recently-rebranded localisation and QA company adds new marketing and project managers
Read More »Deering: Retail sales are slowing
Global retail games sales will drop by a full 20 per cent over the next three years – and publishers will be forced to explore non-traditional distribution methods in order to afford increasing development costs. That’s according to Codemasters chairman – and MCV Legend – Chris Deering who told attendees …
Read More »Gaming audience will hit 2.5bn by 2011, says Deering
But just 3 in 10 games recover their costs, so devs â??must explore new models to surviveâ??
Read More »Flagship vets form new studio
Runic Games to house all ex-staffers of developer's Seattle outfit
Read More »COLLADA 1.5 spec released
B-rep, kinematics and external shader system support feature in latest version
Read More »‘Slow development of Dark Knight game cost EA $100m’
Long-rumoured but still unconfirmed Pandemic game failed to capture current Batman buzz
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