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Programme promotes ‘Stream First’ as a valuable game design philosophy for creators

Let’s face it – if anything is going to sell virtual reality, it’s the chance to prance about with a lightsabre. Industrial Light & Magic and LucasArts have apparently inadvertently unveiled an experimental VR title called Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine. A trailer briefly appeared on the ILM website before …

Platform holder to highlight titles made by smaller studios through Google Play Indie Corner initiative

One of the features lost in Microsoft’s big Xbox One u-turn in 2013 could yet be revisited. Shortly after the Xbox One’s E3 2013 reveal the platform holder was forced to abandon much of the digital architecture it had designed for the console, amid a ferocious consumer backlash that still …

Ubisoft’s The Division is the biggest Q1 game ever. MCV estimates that over 300,000 copies of the game were sold in a week (digital and physical), making it a massive new IP launch, up there with Watch Dogs and Destiny. We’ve written countless articles about games that got their launches …

The Last Word takes home three prizes from San Francisco event

Xbox One and Windows 10 to allow playing with other PC and console platforms

Come meet the Northern Ireland Developers at GDC and find out why Northern Ireland is a great place to make your game

Well isn’t Microsoft just full of surprises. Having set parts of the fandom alight with its recent comments about the marriage of Xbox and PC, Microsoft has now said that it is fully embracing cross-platform online multiplayer. But we’re not just talking between Xbox and PC – Microsoft is happy …

Developer Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed that upcoming Wii U shooter Star Fox Zero will include the option for players to pilot an invincible Arwing. The idea, Miyamoto explained, is to give less experienced, and typically younger players, an easier in-road into the game. The traditional play modes will remain for …