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Japanese developer Marvelous has postponed the release of an upcoming Vita game because it is concerned there is not enough interest to make it financially viable. Siliconera reports that Uppers was due for release on April 21st, but producer Kenichiro Takaki has confirmed that pre-orders were so low the company …

Special address, Unity Dev Day and more lined up for San Francisco next month

Philip Bang joins from Wooga to oversee strategy games

Release date and price expected to be revealed in San Francisco next month

Things continue to look distinctly unhealthy for former social gaming giant, Zynga. According to VentureBeat, Zynga has confirmed a report fromlocal blog SFist that the social firm was selling its San Francisco HQ (pictured). The blog also reports that the property is 670,000 square feet and according to San Francisco …

Unreal World started life as a shareware ASCII RPG in 1990

Call of Duty publisher claims it is now "the largest game network in the world"

‘If people are unwilling to pay a price commensurate with the labour involved in creating games like this, then fewer people will take those risks,’ says Brigador creator

Sony has begun sending out invites for a PlayStation VR press event in San Francisco next month. The platform is holding an exclusive press event on March 15th, as reported by IGN. The invitation (below) promises a PlayStation VR presentation and hands-on demos. PlayStation VR is pegged for release in …

'When we've finished our vertical slice preproduction build, we do one for a week then. We do another at the end, which is focused on mining ideas for DLC.'