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Crackdown 2 studio’s next game was originally revealed as part of Sony’s 2014 Gamescom lineup

SuperData now reckons the new virtual reality sector will make nearly a third less money this year than it had originally forecast. VentureBeat reports that while its previous prediction pegged 2016 VR sales at $5.1bn, it now believes $3.6bn is more realistic. It says the change is due to an …

Intel Developer Blog: Check out these tips for building native code for iOS and Android simultaneously by using Java

Suggestion for pound-for-pound financing of studios by UK government joins removal of limit on subcontracting tax relief in wishlist for March Budget

Radiant Entertainment, the indie studio founded by fighting game vets Tom and Tony Cannon, has been purchased by League of Legends creator Riot Games. Radiant was founded in 2013, and has since been working on two titles: Free-to-play brawler Rising Thunder and crowdfunded title Stonehearth, which came to Early Access. …

Audio software bolstered with more than 80,000 game-ready assets priced at 99 cents

Riot Games’newest employees are probablymaking the company’s first fighting game. That’s the most obvious conclusion from the theLeague of Legendsdeveloper’s latestacquisition: Radiant Entertainment, developers of crafting gameStonehearthand free-to-play fighting gameRising Thunder. In an announcement yesterday, Radiant said that it will shut downRising Thunder—which has been in a public Alpha since …

In a shock move, Amazon has launched its own engine. But can the newcomer really hold its own against the established might of heavyweights Unity and Unreal? Develop asks Mike Frazzini, vice president of Amazon Games

The Japanese arm of Amazon has begun allowing international customers to buy video games. So what, you may ask? The move offers a brand new avenue for games importers, who until now have relied on import specialists, most of whom are typically more expensive. This will give potentially even more …

Undergraduate and postgraduate courses in High Performance Graphics and Games Engineering will include focus on use of Vulkan and DX12, as well as training in VFX, such as cloth, fur and hair modelling, and crowd simulation