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Runescape developer Jagex has reported record revenues for the second successive year. The company generated 74.4m in the year ending December 31st, beating the then record-breaking 57.9m total from the year before by some 28 per cent. Profits grew 21.5 per cent at 28.8m. Jagex has also announced a rebrand, …
Read More »A Herstory of Gaming
Aardvark Swift's Joey Relton looks back in time to five women who made their name in the games industry
Read More »Indie game We Happy Few in early stages of becoming a movie
We Happy Few, still in Early Access, has had the rights acquired to turn it into a movie
Read More »Valve talks discoverability, curation with prominent YouTubers
Jim Sterling and TotalBiscuit travel to Steam's offices to talk shop
Read More »Richard Garriott to receive Honorary Award at GameLab Barcelona
Honorary Award is Spanish Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' most prestigous
Read More »The Big Question: Real Life Locations
Video games excel in indulging fantasy, but what problems can recreating a real life location pose? Recruitment agency Amiqus investigates
Read More »The Develop Post-Mortem: Pony Island
Forged in the fires of Ludum Dare, Pony Island went on to become a popular Steam release. Jem Alexander chats to developer Daniel Mullins about the game’s development
Read More »Two Square Enix veterans depart company
Isamu Kamikokuryo and Yoshinori Yamagishi depart at the end of the financial year
Read More »We Need To Talk About Crunch
Crunch is still all too common in the games industry. Marie Dealessandri asks Partnership HR, Sony Interactive Entertainment London Studio, Real Time UK, Playtonic and Rare how they tackle the issue
Read More »Search for a Star announces finalists
You can play and look at the round 2 entries here
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