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Thinking of opening your own studio? Developers that have already been through the journey, those that currently are and a range of industry experts share key insights into starting on your best foot

In Dying Light, the recently deceased aren’t just walking: they can scale buildings, jump fences and more. Luckily, so can the living. Develop chases down lead designer Maciej Binkowski and lead programmer Bartosz Kulon to discover how they implemented first-person parkour movement

The next entry in Capcom’s Resident Evil series will be a ‘clean slate’ and a return to the franchise’s horror roots. That’s according to industry analyst Dr Serkan Toto, who said on the Twitter (below) that Resident Evil 7 is indeed in development. It will also ‘go back to RE’s …

Techland producer Tymon Smektala offers developers advice on how to build add-ons that truly give gamers extra value

Virtual humans in VR and ‘deep learning’ among ‘longer-term’ topics being researched by 30 to 40-strong team

Half of the German population plays games according to data firm Newzoo. These 41.5m consumers allowed the German market to increase by two per cent in 2015, generating $4bn (2.7bn) in revenues. Germany is the biggest games market in Europe and Newzoo predicts that its revenues will continue to grow …

GameTrailers may not be quite as dead as previously thought. Media giant IGN has stepped in – as reported by Polygon – purchasing both the GameTrailers’ name and the site’s massive library of videos. While GameTrailers.com is gone, its video content and YouTube channel will survive. That domain also redirects …

Six games will be showcased in the ‘VR, why just be part of the audience?’ display at the Nexon Computer Museum, with first-place winners also invited for workshops in South Korea

It’s been a huge commercial success, but from the off Star Wars Battlefront has been criticised for its lack of a meaningful single player mode. Now Eurogamer reports that EA Studios boss Patrick Soderlund has admitted in an investor broadcast that DICE opted against developing a single player campaign in …

‘We intend to continue to regularly select what we consider to be the most and most polished mods from among the many thousands available on Steam Workshop,’ says lead designer Jeremy Stieglitz