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The boss of a leading games retailer has suggested that Sony’s PlayStation VR might arrive as late as autumn of this year. Sony’s device, previously known as Project Morpheus, is currently due out some time in the first half of 2016. However, speaking in a Fox News interview as spotted …

The successor to Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture will be self-published by developer The Chinese Room. We’re gearing up towards releasing info about our new game in the next couple of weeks,” the studio said on Twitter. With the bonus that because it’s not signed to a publisher, we can …

Intel Developer Blog: Guide to utilising the latest graphics hardware includes advice on using Direct3D 12 and OpenGL 4.4 for PC and mobile devs

Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs studio to go it alone following PS4 deal with Sony on last game

StarCraft, Destiny and Battlefield round out nominations for top award at Game Audio Network Guild Awards

Retailer GAME has made another big eSports purchase, this time in Spain. A little under a year ago GAME swooped to acquire Multiplay for 20m. Now it has reached an agreement to acquire SocialNAT for an undisclosed sum. SocialNAT has over 150k registered users. It organised the eSports activities at …

VP of game design says limitations are a major boost for innovation

Chris Schlerf has announced that he has joined Destiny developer Bungie. Schelrf was the lead writer on 343 Industries’ Halo 4 before joining BioWare as lead writer for the in-development Mas Effect: Andromeda. To confirm what some folks asked about a few months back, I am no longer working on …

Learn how the man behind RoboCop's special effects helped create the look of id Software's most terrifying monsters

Chris Schlerf joined BioWare Montreal in 2013 before leaving late last year