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John Broomhall talks to The Chinese Room’s Jessica Curry about creating music for the end of the world
Read More »Channel 4 opens publishing arm All 4 Games
Ex-Sony, Outplay and Ripstone staff join new team headed by Colin Macdonald
Read More »Another Gameloft studio shuts down – report
Gameloft has reportedly closed another game development studio. Gamasutracites multiple sources that claim the company has shut down a Seattle-based office, with one source stating roughly 15 people have been laid off. The move comes less than a year after the branch opened in November 2014. It’s not clear at …
Read More »93% of UK devs predict growth in 2016
Industry survey reveals optimistic outlook throughout all British games businesses
Read More »Unsung Story Kickstarter angers backers with change of gameplay focus
Back in January 2014 15,824 people pledged a total of $660,126 on Kickstarter for a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics. These people were paying for a narrative-heavy tactical RPG designed by FFT and Vagrant Story’s Yasumi Matsuno due for release in July 2015. So an announcement confirming not only …
Read More »Video game voice actors threaten strike action
Discussions reach impasse as SAG-AFTRA members vote to halt work
Read More »Region Focus: Guildford’s games hub
The county town of Surrey is one of the UK’s oldest development hubs and is still going strong. Develop speaks to local experts to find out more
Read More »Hitman delayed to 2016
Release date moved to March as IO Interactive adds more content for launch
Read More »Five top resources for making cross-platform games
Intel Developer Blog: A selection of useful tools and libraries to help with your cross-platform development
Read More »George Osborn leaves Pocket Gamer
Events editor George Osborn has departed Pocket Gamer. Osborn joined Pocket Gamer in 2014 and was responsible for all editorial for the site’s events. Prior to this he was head of editorial content for MagicSolver.com. He also runs his own site, Mobile Mavericks. Osborn plans to devote more time to …
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