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What went wrong for Niantic? How can other developers learn from their difficulties to prepare themselves in the future? Griff Parry, CEO and founder of GameSparks, explores what is going on

At long last Japanese players are finally able to download Pokemon Go. Whether they can play it is another question entirely, however. The app itself is available to download on the Japanese versions of both iOS and Google Play. If reports are to be believed it’s a couple of days …

Rendering engine reportedly able to trace in excess of 100 million rays per second while remaining suitable for use on mobile, VR and AR devices

Quantic Foundry survey of over 1,000 players also discovers that co-op is equally popular between genders, while men prefer to face off against each other

There’s a new powerhouse in the PC graphics card market. The new GeForce Titan X is based on the company’s recent GP102 architecture and packs some serious visual muscle. 11 teraflops of computing power is the headline, powered by 12bn transistors and a record-breaking 3,584 CUDA cores clocked at 1.53GHz. …

Nominees will be showcased at the October event and provided with a free pass to the show

An RPG designed exclusively for use on the Apple Watch is under development at Square Enix. Siliconera has a few shreds of information about the game, which is called Cosmos Rings. It seems tied to daily activity, with the number of steps taken by a user having some sort of …

The July release of Ark: Survival Evolved’s spin-off mode on PS4 has been postponed. The game’s Survival of the Fittest mode was released as a standalone free-to-play download on PC earlier this year and had been scheduled for a release on PS4 this month. However, development has been put on …

VR expert David Ranyard continues his regular columns looking at the future of virtual reality, and analyses thereaction to the hardware from this year’s E3. So E3 is over for another year, and I have one burning question: what was the impact of virtual reality at this year’s show? It …

The Australian developer behind 2015 mobile hit Crossy Road, Hipster Whale, is making a move into publishing. The studio will continue to work on its own projects, but is also looking for external games. It describes publishing as the ‘natural next step’, and that it is looking for games that …