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Creative design director Eric Medalle has been at the studio for 12 years, working across the brand's card games, 3DS apps and anime

Open-source API boasts improved threading method over OpenGL

Since it was spun out of streaming firm Justin.tv in 2011, Twitch has risen to be one of the most prominent players in the modern games media. And with an average 8.5m people coming to Twitch every single day, it’s entirely understandable that other firms would want in on the …

Octopus Tree currently working on three PC titles

UK games stores are facing one of the most congested spring release slates in history. May in particular is rammed with six major titles arriving within four weeks: Battleborn, Uncharted 4, Doom, Homefront: The Revolution, Overwatch and Mirror’s Edge Catalyst will all be fighting for gamer attention. We will be …

This week Konami UK welcomes two new recruits, IGN appoints JoeSkrebels as its UK news editor and Future promotes two members of GamesRadar’s editorial team. Konami recruits Asim Tanvir andDanielle Mounsey The Pro Evolution Soccer firm has recruited two new faces to its UK team. Asim Tanvir (pictured, far right) …

Intel Developer Blog: RealSense Smartphone Developer Kit's cursor mode can track hand movements in 2D or 3D at twice the speed of full hand tracking

Survey finds that half of devs under crunch work more than 60 hours a week

The organiser of Gamescom has reported an impressive start to its 2016 show. Koelnmesse say that it has had 60 per cent more registrations during its Early Bird period than it did in 2015. Businesses from 33 countries have already registered for the event, while Turkey will be this year’s …

Technology includes verticality in object-based audio design, as well as traditional horizontal surround sound