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Oculus boss Palmer Luckey has argued back against those who believe that platform exclusive VR games are damaging. You see Sony investing in their content the same way,” Luckey told TechCrunch. They want to make things that take advantage of their features that they have in the best way possible. …

Unreal Engine creator's Mike Gamble will present the winner during July ceremony

A couple of references that have been interpreted as a call out to the Gamergate hate campaign are nothing of the sort, Nintendo has said. Two pieces of dialogue plucked from a demo of Wii U title Paper Mario: Color Splash were called out by harassment victim Zoe Quinn as …

Experts in 2D, 3D, VR and AR invited to share their advice at engine’s flagship show

Vinod Ramachandran, senior product manager for Google’s app install advertising business, reveals the ways games advertising has evolved and breaks down the tech giant’s options for creators looking to get their title noticed

We played the games, we watched the trailers and we spoke to the UK games industry to come up with our top titles from E3 2016. INDIE GAME OF E3 We Happy Few From: Compulsion Games Platforms: Xbox One, PC, PS4 Out: July 26th (Early Access) This creepy survival game …

Llamasoft founder Jeff Minter has revealed that the studio was forced to abandon development for iOS after the platform proved to be unsustainable. The Space Giraffe, Tempest 2000 and Gridrunner creator said on the dev’sblog: We spent two years doing games on iOS and in the end we stopped doing …

Three VR titles and iPad game Twisted Lines join six PC entrants

Integration of monetisation platform for mobile apps includes manual initialisation and deferred SDK activation during onboarding

The UK’s two big video games trade bodies have reacted to Britain’s shock decision to leave the EU. UKIE’s statement The UK has voted to leave the European Union after an historic EU Referendum on Thursday. Leave won by 52% to 48% for the Remain campaign, with an overall voting …