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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

Yo-kai Watch is reaching the western market next month: Nintendo, licence holder Viz Media and Japanese expert Famitsu discuss the phenomenon in this week’s MCV. We also talked to Deep Silver CEO Klemens Kundratitz about his games line-up for the year to come, which could be one of the biggest …

Starting today (Thursday, March 17th), consumers can try and pre-order HTC’s Vive VR headset at a number of PC-focused brick and mortar stores. The tech giant will be bringing its virtual reality hardware to Currys PC World (Leeds Birstall, Reading and Tottenham Court Road locations), Overclockers UK (Newcastle-under-Lyme) and Scan …

“60Hz is the minimum acceptable frame rate. Everybody drill that into your head,’ advises senior dev support engineer Chris Norden