Game development news

Beta allows customers to buy and sell in-game merchandise with their Steam Wallet

Nearly 900,000 purchases made at an average cost of $5.76

Some publisher partners had continued to use service free of charge 'for up to four years'

Developer delight over tax cuts but cultural test sparks confusion and dismay

MMO avoids free-to-play and adopts traditional pay-up-front model

3D optimisation middleware used in Gears of War: Judgment and Infinity Blade: Dungeons

Shooter sells 130,000 copies despite 'staggering' amount of illegal file sharing

Xbox 360 and PS3 have little left to offer, from a technical perspective at least. That’s the conclusion to draw from comment by Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli, who told Videogamer that the studio’s upcoming Crysis 3 uses over 99 per cent of the power available in both machines. "Crysis 3 …

As many as one-third of staff let go from publisher

Social platform for games open to third-party developers, says Cevat Yerli