Game development news

Rockstar has at last laid bare its ambitious plans for Grand Theft Auto V. As detailed by US mag Game Informer and reported by CVG, Rockstar says that GTAV’s gameworld is bigger than GTA San Andreas, GTA IV and Red Dead Redemption combined. It even features a fully modelled ocean …

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Successful developers to receive seed funding, shared office space and dev tools

Valuation of world's richest company drops by 20 per cent despite impressive sales of iPhone 5 and iPad mini

Epic's flagship series has sold one million copies since July

New add-on charges users to pay to play and rewards them with real money for kills

Gameshastra will release its first completely in-house developed game – Rescube, later this month. Scheduled for release on iOS and Android devices, Rescube follows the (mis)adventures of Gisu, an alien who finds himself stranded on an unknown planet when all he really wanted was a vacation in Hawaii. The puzzle …

Mists of Pandaria expansion helps halt decline with 2.7 million copies sold in first week

Users can now also register non-Origin games to digital distribution platform

UKIE CEO Jo Twist looks at the funding options available to start-ups