Game development news

Gavin Price is feeling nervous. The creative director and studio head at Playtonic Games is about to debut his first project on Kickstarter. He and five other senior veterans from acclaimed UK developer Rare have banded together to launch a new studio which aims to take gamers back to 1996, …

Since it started releasing games for PlayStation platforms in 2010, Brighton-based indie developer FuturLab had been publishing its own titles. This included the Velocity series of shoot-em-ups, as well as the Surge and Coconut Dodge games. But in February of this year, the developer announced it was turning to Activision’s …

That might read like an odd headline when you consider we’ve just launched indie game month and we have an entire event dedicated to this audience in just two weeks. But, does anyone know what the term ‘indie game’ is supposed to represent anymore? Independence has been a constant theme …

Outsourcer worked on game environments and provided project management tools

Special recruitment guide will be included in June issue and heading to E3, putting your vacancies in front of thousands of job-seekers

API can render 'six to 12 times more polygons' than what could be achieved on DX11

Studio's Hilmar Veigar Pétursson says there's still some way to go before VR becomes a hit

Project Ukulele’s final name and lead characters unveiled, Kickstarter goes live later today

'By giving Dead Island 2 more time we are confident that everyone will get a better game to play as a result'

Playtonic Games’ Kickstarter campaign for Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor Yooka-Laylee is scheduled to begin later today. A post on the indie studio’s website confirms the crowdfunding effort kicks off on May 1st at 5pm BST, though no word on how long it’ll run for. The game stars the chameleon Yooka and …