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‘The most important thing that’s happening at the moment is that the programmers are taking the feedback we gave them from working on The Witcher,’ says visual effects artist Jose Teixeira

Testology’s Andy Robson urges publisher not to release titles until they’re ready

‘It’s really, really detailed but part of that is you cannot move – at all,’ recalls X-Men performer Shawn Ashmore. ‘If you move during a take the data is ruined’

Epic’s upcoming F2P outing Paragon is to receive a very un-free boxed release on PS4. A $59.99 Paragon Edition has been announced for North America for June 7th. For the money gamers get a host of in-game items and perks including 6,000 Paragon Coins (worth $60), some additional challenges, permanent …

Surgeon Simulator, I Am Bread and Worlds Adrift developer joins Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima and PS4 architect Mark Cerny at top of billing

Event returning to Paris in late October

Behold, the power of games testers. Back in 1993, Harlow-based devs Julian Gollop and his brother Nick were deep in development on UFO: Enemy Unknown – the first game in the XCOM series. Unfortunately the publisher they were working for, MicroProse, was bought out by Spectrum HoloByte. And the new …

‘It was very difficult for NIS America to establish an equal-partnership with Atlus’ following Sega buyout of studio, CEO and president reveals

The legal dispute between Patrice Desilets and Ubisoft is over, with the rights for 1666: Amsterdam exchanging hands in the process. Having previously left the developer for THQ, Desilets re-joined Ubisoft in 2013. However, the pair quickly fell out with Desilets being suspended just two months later, leading to him …

Rebirth as simply ‘SNK’ follows recent launch of Entertainment division