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Strapping on a proton pack, Richie Shoemaker catches up with nDreams CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh as the veteran VR studio prepares to unleash upon the living it’s most promising game to date
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Julian Migura on the opening of VaultN and the keys to digital B2B distribution
"Our aim is to provide control to the publishers so that they have the ability to understand where their products are. They have the ability to say 'Okay, I want my product to go exactly here, under these conditions, for this net price, and I don't want it to go elsewhere.' That's essentially what the platform allows."
Read More »When We Made… Runescape Mobile
With RuneScape Mobile passing the one year anniversary of its release, Vince Pavey took the opportunity to chat with Matt Casey and Emma Hall at Jagex about their work on the portable version of the ever-popular MMO
Read More »From Meme Machine to Mobile: 21 Years of Miniclip
Before YouTube, before even MySpace and the subsequent onset of social media, there was Miniclip, the ground zero for meme culture that together with Newgrounds inspired a punk-like attitude to game development. Richie Shoemaker picks up the story from president and co-founder Rob Small as the company celebrates a 21-year journey from Flash to mobile
Read More »Hilmar Veigar Pétursson provides a short lesson in “Digital Physics”
When Richie Shoemaker wanted to broaden his understanding of web3 and geMt ay 2020 MCV/a balanced and reasoned argument for its potential benefits and dangers, he went to CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson for enlightenment
Read More »Rolling with DICE: A chat with Rebecka Coutaz
Vince Pavey chats to Rebecka Coutaz about the Battlefield studio’s legacy and what it’s been like since she took command of the studio back in November
Read More »A Talk On The Wired Side
Wired Productions’ MD Leo Zullo reflects on a wild and exciting period for the indie publisher
Read More »EPOS Audio: A Sound Start
Two years ago Sennheiser’s gaming division became EPOS and a new audio brand was born. Then the pandemic hit and everything changed. Richie Shoemaker listens in as Maja Sand-Grimnitz tells the story of how EPOS broke through the noise
Read More »Hell Let Loose on the (working from) home front
Team17 has taken charge of Hell Let Loose and is establishing a new virtual studio to service the game and its long-term expansion. Richie Shoemaker pins down CEO Michael Pattison and his recruitment sergeant-major as they assemble for the next advance
Read More »Industry Voices: How the Epic Games and LEGO metaverse collaboration outcompetes a competitive market
This is a guest article by Stuart Smith, corporate transactions and intellectual property lawyer and Partner at Simkins On 11th April, Epic Games announced that it had raised a further $2 billion, bringing Epic’s post-investment value to $31.5 billion. Half of that investment comes from Sony, building on a previous …
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