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WatchKit extension also added for devs building games for Apple Watch
Read More »Valve beautifies Counter-Strike: GO visuals with new lighting and shaders
Super sampling for displacement surfaces, cascade shadow maps, phong specular highlights and map blending among graphical improvements made to shooter
Read More »Achieving true game immersion with face-tracking controls in Unity
Intel Developer Blog: We take a look at a hidden object game with an unusual control scheme
Read More »Microsoft scraps Android-to-Windows app porting programme
Announced last year, Project Astoria was designed to allow game devs to easily translate mobile code for PC
Read More »Pokémon Go dev Niantic chocks up another $5m in funding
Financial backing from companies including The Pokémon Company, Google and Nintendo now totals $25 million
Read More »Cyanide takes over Call of Cthulhu development from Frogwares
Blood Bowl team to helm up PC and console title in absence of Sherlock Holmes dev
Read More »Cancelled Star Wars game saw the sons of Skywalker and Solo face off
It has been revealed that a planned original Star Wars trilogy sequel game would have featured a storyline not entirely dissimilar to that seen in Episode VII: The Force Awakens. A few years ago a book examining the history of LucasArts lifted the lid on a number of logos for …
Read More »Countdown to GDC 2016: How to win over publishers
With just over two weeks to go, Sold Out's Garry Williams offers advice for those all important pitches and meetings
Read More »Microsoft acquires cross-platform tools firm Xamarin
Xamarin’s tech integrated into Visual Studio, Microsoft Azure and more
Read More »FarmVille creator moves to Moonfrog
Former Zynga SVP of games Mark Skaggs will serve as director for Indian mobile studio founded by ex-Zynga devs
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