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After claiming that Activision’s accusations of theft were ‘erroneous’, CEO David Prassel has finally confessed that his company indeed stole assets from Call of Duty. Trek Industries’ sci-fi shooter Orion was pulled from Steam earlier this week, following a complaint filled by Activision over weapons assets oddly similar to those …

Business manager for the recruitment specialist Liz Prince looks back on the firm's 16 years in the industry - and predicts what might lie ahead for those seeking a career in development in the future

Nintendo needs to set its sights on the under 12 kids market in to make the NX a hit. That’s according to research firm DFC Intelligence, who says that children under the age of 12 have been ‘largely ignored’ by Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One. The outfit says …

Co-producer of Street Fighter V, Star Citizen, Paragon and BioShock Infinite is now home to over 160 staff

VR tutorial resource, Unreal dev channel and VR sculpting tools join ‘conventional’ games in recipients of funding

August event in Assembly Rooms to include heavy focus on VR, workshops and talks

Head of developer strategy Anna Sweet to talk on the evolution of genre in VR

E3, as has become custom, is almost more about what wasn’t shown than what was. Where was Crackdown?” That was the first question I was asked by a fellow journalist shortly after Xbox’s press conference, followed swiftly by: "where was HoloLens for that matter?" PlayStation executives spent half their time …

Turkey is a relatively small market for video games – but it is a fast-growing one. In 2014, the country’s industry generated $375m (264m) in revenues, ranking No.17 in Newzoo’s annual charts. In 2015, it was worth $464m (327m), which represented an impressive 24.7 per cent increase year-on-year and allowed …

A collection of new games from some of Europe’s biggest studios will launch next month, with all profits going to War Child. Published by Sega, Help: The Game will launch on Steam from July 26th for 9.99. The title features new games from Team17, Rovio, Spilt Milk Studios, Sports Interactive, …