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As Kotaku puts it, what a perfect sign of the times. Barely a day passes without a YouTuber taking to social media to lament a copyright claiming robbing them of revenues from their videos. The phenomenon has led to an interesting option buried away in the menus for Microsoft’s recently …

The world of Rock Band has been hit with more bad news. Harmonix’s attempt to crowdfund a PC port of Rock Band 4 via Fig, which was to be developed by Sumo Digital, has ended in failure. The developer had looked for $1.5m. At the end of the campaign it …

The Division makes Swedish dev last month’s most successful studio

The MCV Women in Games Awards, in association with Women in Games (WIGJ) will take place on Thursday May 19th at the Hamyard Hotel, London. There the recently announced Top 30 Women in Games will be celebrated, while six special awards will be presented. Here we take a look at …

One of the key figures behind the failed Coleco Chameleon console has spoken out on his version of why the venture collapsed. All trace of the project vanished last month after a pair of prototype devices, one of which was shown to the public at the New York Toy Fair, …

Revolution Software, Playtonic and Edge Case to speak in 'The £6m Panel' on May 5th

Leading games developers will discuss how to make the most of crowd-funding at an opening keynote panel at Interface next month. The panel will include industry veteran Charles Cecil, who took his Broken Sword series to Kickstarter in 2012 and made over 770,000. Playtonic’s Andy Robinson will also join the …

Developer association says platform holder is “oblivious to the consequences of their actions”

Testers and designers among those set to adopt specialist skills and be in hot demand among studios

It appears that the Oculus Rift VR revolution has yet to reach the UK. The headset officially launched on March 28th, but Kotaku reports that as far as it can gather, the only people in the UK to have actually received their devices are original Kickstarter backers. Oculus said earlier …