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Develop: Brighton board member Simon Oliver discusses the evolution of the smartphone gaming market

Japanese multimedia composer Baiyon will serve as creative producer

Joost van Dreunen suggests mobile developers should pay more attention to the TV industry

Developer Yacht Club Games has revealed just how well its indie darling has performed. The studio has revealed that between its launch in June 2014 and December 2015 the platformer sold more than 1m units in total – physical and digital. But in February, the Kickstarter game’s digital sales figures …

Team behind VR headphones preparing for production as Kickstarter campaign draws to a close

Veteran Finnish developer co-founded studios Church of Electronic Entertainment, Dreams Interactive and Chat Republic

Developer pays undisclosed sum to Trendy Entertainment in response to accusation that former creative director Jeremy Stieglitz worked in secret on Ark: Survival Evolved

Nomad Games MD Don Whiteford explains how developers and publishers can use their content to help raise money for the disability charity this summer

A VentureBeat opinion piece written by games industry vetAlex St. John has sparked heated debate in the development community. The piece was arguing that developers should stop complaining about poor working conditions and accept the sacrifices needed to create ‘art’. Many modern game developers have embraced a culture of victimology …

‘These people have managed to adopt a wage-slave attitude toward one of the most remarkable and privileged careers in the world,’ wrote WildTangent founder and DirectX co-creator Alex St. John in heavily criticised op-ed