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The developer of That Dragon, Cancer has revealed that the game has sold as few as 14k units. The emotional title is an ode to the short life of its creator Ryen Green’s son, Joel, who died of cancer at the age of five. The game received considerable press coverage, …

Amnesia: The Dark Descent creator suggests that mixing horror and sci-fi impacted sales of both its titles

Another report claiming that Sony has a new, more powerful version of the PS4 in the works has emerged online. The Wall Street Journal claims that Sony is indeed planning a more powerful version of its console that is designed to handle higher-end game experiences” and VR. This follows identical …

‘We underestimated how many people would be satisfied with only watching the game instead of playing it themselves’

Having flirted with the near-future, 2016’s Call of Duty will mark a more radical departure for the series. Eurogamer reports that online rumours about the game being set in the very far future”, featuring space combat” and being full-on sci-fi” are correct. Infinity Ward is indeed the developer, but the …

Games won’t be pinned down to using IAP or marketplace of Rift headset maker

‘The possibility exists since the PlayStation 4 shares many of its parts with the PC,’ EVP Masayasu Ito says

Intel Developer Blog: What the latest Android update means for devs

Subsets of the games community are crying ‘censorship’ once again after Blizzard has said it will pull sexually exploitative Overwatch artwork. The pose in question depicts Tracer looking over her shoulder at the viewer, displaying her lycra-clad behind. It’s a position that nearly every female game or superhero movie star …

Software additions and launch of Platform SDK coincide with release of consumer model of VR headset