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$99 price tag dropped for studios making under $100,000 annually

Intel Developer Blog: John Evelyn used the Intel XDK development kit to bring his dream of hand-drawn visuals to iOS and Android

The battle to be the world’s most powerful graphics card is always shifting, and today a new beast sits on the throne. It’s called the Radeon Pro Duo, the unit houses two Fiji GPUs, amounting to 16 teraflops of computer performance and 8GB of on board RAM. Also included is …

Surprise – it’s based on the upcoming movie, rather than the games

Trials on Tatooine is the first official lightsaber simulator in virtual reality. We wonder if it will be popular…

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 …