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The market share enjoyed by Windows Phone handsets has more than halved in the last year. The latest Worldwide Smartphone Shipments report from Gartner shows that Q4 2015 shipments of Windows Phone devices fell to 4.4m units, giving it around 1.1 per cent market share of the period. That’s down …

Homefront: The Revolution director Hasit Zala claims ‘quite a few’ employees went unpaid for weeks

Having been famed as somewhat of a ‘one at a time’ developer, Bethesda has altered the way it works to allow for multiple projects. Kotaku reports that Fallout 4 director Todd Howard told a DICE audience that multiple projects are now currently ongoing. We actually have three kinda longer-term projects …

Ustwo Games’ Dan Gray, writer Meg Jayanth and State of Play’s Luke Whittaker and Katherine Bidwell will all offer their expert advice during three-day show

After years of anticipation, VR is finally launching in the coming months. And while there are some exciting games on the horizon for the tech, making these experiences has been anything but easy. Developing titles for VR has come with a long list of challenges that studios in the sector …

Tomb Raider, Mirror’s Edge and BioShock scribe urges creators to respect the need for narrative as much as core gameplay

The extent of the troubles that had embroiled the studio formerly known as Free Radical has been revealed. Speaking to The Guardian, Dambuster Studios studio head Hasit Zala revealed that things had gotten pretty dark for the Homefront: The Revolution developer by the summer of 2014. Crytek ran into financial …

Although unplanned reveals can spark genuine excitement and interest in a game, they can also potentially affect deals and share prices, Jason Kingsley explains

A collaboration between film director Guillermo del Toro and Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is still on the cards. Following the troubled creation of the pair’s Silent Hills, which eventually resulted in the game’s cancellation last year, del Toro vowed that he was done with the gamesindustry. Now, it …

‘They're different than anything we've done before,’ Todd Howard teases, while revealing that new studio in Montreal will focus on mobile