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The makers of The Banner Saga discuss the biggest hardships they faced in bringing their vision to life

EverQuest Next is never going to see the light of day. Developer Daybreak has said that it has ceased development of the title, which was announced back in 2013 when Daybreak was still called Sony Online Entertainment. Development was previously scrapped and started over in 2011, with the studio saying …

Funding challenge survey reveals only a third of mobile devs apply for government grants

The developer behind MMO Wildstar is confirmed significant job losses at its studio. NCSoft’s Carbine Studios, which was established to develop and run Wildstar, has according to Polygon chopped over 70 jobs, amounting to around 40 per cent of its workforce. Those who remain have also been told that further …

Ubisoft said it was going to do it, and The Division has delivered. Last month the publisher told MCV that it thought The Division could be the best selling Q1 release ever. And that’s precisely what it’s achieved. The Tom Clancy shooter has broken the 11-year record set by Sony’s …

Support for full-body motion-tracking suit MVN comes via partnership with animation tech firm IKinema

Open-source AIX platform to support cause-and-effect study of artificial intelligence by developers, researchers and students

Chinese launch of MMO cancelled as studio moves to focus on supporting ‘live game’ in US and Europe

We already know that Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon are on the way in this, the 20th anniversary year of Pokemon. But another title has now also been confirmed. It’s called Pokemon Co-Master, Wired reports, and is a free-to-play digital boardgame in development for smartphones and tablets. The project is …

Devs can choose to automatically adjust server use according to player and game session count, plus other metrics