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Developers are going to find it increasingly more difficult to protect their game mechanics under copyright law following a ruling from a Texas court judge. The ruling stems from a case in which DaVinci Editrice sued Ziko Games over a game with mechanics that were identical to its own,GamaSutrareports. DaVinci’s …

Cinemaware’s stable of games IP now has a new owner – Payday developer Starbreeze. The studio has paid €525k to acquire the company’s assorted games brands, included in which is the Defender of the Crown series. The purchase was made with Starbreeze’s VR platform StarVR in mind. "Defender of the …

Games jam and student festival has support from PlayStation, ARM, Unity, and more

With the line between what players and acceptable and offensive seemingly blurring, James Batchelor asks how devs can ensure they design characters without controversy

PC users are now able to link their Steam and GOG accounts and potentially grab some DRM-free games. GOG has announced GOG Connect. Available via its website, it allows users who are logged in to then sign in again via their Steam account. GOG will their scan their library for …

Activision just announced a new installment in the Skylanders franchise. Skylanders Imaginators is set to be released in October and will give players the opportunity to create their own character. Gamers will be able to choose their Skylander’s appearance, powers, abilities, names, catchphrases and musical themes, amongst others. Eric Hirshberg, …

Minecraft creator Mojang has laid out a new set of rules designed to clamp down on the commercial use of Minecraft servers for advertising. Essentially the rules prohibit companies, charities, ad agencies or politicians from making mods or running servers designed to promote products that are not related to Minecraft. …

'In no case does copyright protection extend to an idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle or discovery'

Payday devs plans to bring Defender of the Crown, Wings and more to StarVR

Squad, the studio behind Kerbal Space Program, has revealed Felipe Falanghe is stepping down as the game’s lead developer. In aforum post, he thanked both the players and his fellow developers for their support and reflects on times when he worried that any decision could "morph [the game] into something …