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Read More »Chris Avellone joins InXile’s Torment dev team
Crowdfunded project surpasses $3.5 million with less than two days to go
Read More »The Wire and Lost are inspirations for Bungie’s Destiny
Hit US TV shows The Wire, Lost and Battlestar Galactica have been named as the inspirations behind Bungie’s upcoming online title Destiny. "I think typically, for the Halo games, we looked at movies. But really for this game, we looked at serial television; great dramas like Lost or The Wire; …
Read More »Tom Hall heads to mobile developer PlayFirst
Designer likens fast-paced and creative mobile industry to early days of ID Software
Read More »Pride holding back Japanese devs, says Inafune
'They know they have to learn more from western games, but they donâ??t know what to do or how to do it'
Read More »Disney closes LucasArts
Internal development team disbanded as company shifts to external licensing model
Read More »Troubled Doom 4 gets next-gen reboot
Earlier version of horror title 'did not exhibit the quality and excitement intended'
Read More »Rovio revenues double to £130m in 2012
Profits up £17 million as number of game downloads surpasses 1.7 billion
Read More »Shock – Doom 4 won’t land on current consoles; Development rebooted in late 2011
Work on Doom 4 was completely rebooted by developer Id Software at the end of 2011. That’s according to Kotaku, which describes the game as being in trouble” as it approaches its fifth year in development. An earlier version of Doom 4 did not exhibit the quality and excitement that …
Read More »Real money gaming – A safe bet?
Could business opportunities in the gambling sector pay off? Develop investigates
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