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Indie twosome, Russell King and Graham Barber, discuss the making of their mobile game for WP8
Read More »GungHo making $1m a month from four mobile games each
GungHo CEO not satisfied with the firm’s number of hits in the increasingly competitive mobile market
Read More »Halo composer Marty O’Donnell fired from Bungie ‘without cause’
Studio’s in-house composer of more than ten years dismissed under unspecified circumstances
Read More »If the Internet of Things is the question, is HTML5 the answer?
Softtalkblog wonders how we will interact with the home appliances of the future and what Intel's tech can do to assist with your own products
Read More »Lionhead’s Fable Anniversary lead designer departs
Ted Timmins spent more than seven years at the Guildford studio and worked on the original Fable
Read More »Bungie sack Halo composer Marty O’Donnell
Acclaimed video games composer and Halo score creator Marty O’Donnell says he has been sacked by Bungie. I’m saddened to say that Bungie’s board of directors terminated me without cause on April 11, 2014,” he said on Twitter. The news was then confirmed in a Bungie statement that read: For …
Read More »Realising InFamous: Second Son’s next-gen vision
Sucker Punch game director Nate Fox tells Develop how the PS4 enabled the studio to realise its ambitious concept
Read More »Training Spotlight: Falmouth University
Falmouth University in Cornwall is offering an entry point into the digital creative industries with a difference. A new course, the Alacrity Falmouth programme, which begins in May 2014, focused on entrepreneurship is its answer to kick-starting a new wave of video game start-ups in the UK. “The aims of …
Read More »Georgia passes new law providing $25m in tax credits for game developers
The state of Georgia has signed a new tax incentive program for video game makers into law. Gamasutra reports House Bill 958 provides $25m in tax credits for video game developers within state lines. It was signed into law earlier this week by governor Nathan Deal. Several notable studios have …
Read More »Kabam’s IPO plans unhampered by King’s troubles
Free-to-play firm still mulling floatation, not worried by King slump
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