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Develop speaks to co-founder and COO Pavel Ryaykkonen about developing titles for both East and West

A third Amiibo was at one stage due to join the upcoming Falco and Fox figures in the Star Fox range. We were working on a couple of ideas for the game for well over a year,” Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto told Game Informer. There was one point where we …

Robert Troughton reunited with Terence Burns and Joe Tidmarsh

Windows 10 is not an attempt to close off the world of PC gaming to third parties, Microsoft has said. This morning Epic founder Tim Sweeney launched a scathing attack on Microsoft’s Windows 10, claiming that its Universal Windows Platform was the first apparent step towards locking down the consumer …

Shigeru Miyamoto’s Wii U game Project Guard will launch next month, only with a new name. Star Fox Guard is a co-operative security guard sim. One player controls a gun using the Wii U gamepad, while everyone else looks at the TV screen that shows multiple security camera screens. The …

The creators of League of Legends and Call of Duty have once again made it into Fortune’s ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ league table. Riot Games features in 39th place, down from 13 last year. Stats show that 23 per cent of its workforce is female and that its …

Meta 2 DK costs $950, enables AR users to interact with digital objects

Support for the Oculus Rift on Mac will only happen when Apple ups the GPU performance of its machines, Palmer Luckey has said. The Oculus CEO was speaking toShack Newswhen he revealed that the ball for VR support was entirely in Apple’s court, and that Oculus would love to support …

The next Monster Hunter will reach 3DS this summer, Nintendo has announced. Monster Hunter Generations is, according to the company, ‘the most customisable Monster Hunter experience to date’. The title went by the name Monster Hunter X in Japan. Monster Hunter is one of the most popular game franchises in …

Sports Interactive head Miles Jacobson was named Person of the Year at last night’s MCV Awards. And to herald his appearance on stage, a special video was created featuring industry legends such as Andy Payne, Paul Collyer and Ian Livingstone, as well as charity War Child. The video charts the …