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It’s better than nothing”. That’s the assessment of Keiji Inafune following the damning critical reception of his new platformer Mighty No.9. The reviews for the game have not been kind, with the title currently carrying a Metacritic rating of 60 per cent. There has also been some frustration about the …

As the countdown begins to this year's event, we run through the hopeful studios and the games that could earn them our coveted awards

‘Dawnwalker’ proposed as name for Japanese outlet, following founding of Mistwalker in 2004

Two of the directors of Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega Plus firm Retro Computers have resigned. Chris Smith (pictured far right) and Paul Andrews (pictured right) have stepped down from the firm due to ‘irreconcilable differences’ between them and the last remaining director, David Levy. A statement released on Smith and …

Indie developer TinyBuild has revealed that it lost nearly half a million dollars in sales for its games to key selling website G2A. Detailing the Punch Club, SpeedRunners and Party Hard creator’s dealings with the grey code marketplace on itsblog, TinyBuild’s Alex Nichiporchik posted figures based on numbers released by …

Until Dawn developer licenses procedural animation tech

Yosuke Matsuda explains: ‘It wouldn’t be good for that market to consist entirely of free-to-play’

As the new CEO of Women in Games, Marie-Claire Isaaman hopes to be part of the movement leading to gender equality in the games industry. But actually she has already done her fair share of work to improve diversity, as a researcher and education consultant in games at the Norwich …

Intel Developer Blog: How RealSense helps VR devs track hand movements

Punch Club and SpeedRunners studio hits out at site G2A for ‘facilitating a fraud-fueled economy’ by offering Steam codes often obtained deceitfully