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The Robocraft studio's co-founder and senior coder discusses the biggest hurdles devs may need to overcome when switching engines

The rumours were true – the next title from Platinum Games is based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Some think of the heroes in a half shelf as a ‘90s phenomena, but in truth they’ve never really gone away. Recent successes have included the actually really, really good animated …

Sony claims new company marks a ‘renewed commitment’ to PlayStation

EA may have a poor reputation amongst some gamers. But according to the creator of Unravel, the publisher is not the villain that some people seem to think. Coldwood Interactive’s Martin Sahlin told The Observer newspaper that he had expected to be ‘bullied’ by EA when the firm tried to …

'It's not like you would ever look at it and compare it to any other shooter that's out there,’ says Doom creator of additional planned title

Creator of last year's hit indie game teases follow-up

Sony has announced it is merging its Computer Entertainment and Network Entertainment operations together to form Sony Interactive Entertainment. According to an announcement made on Sony’s corporate portal, the change is effective as of April 1st 2016, with the new consolidated operation being headquartered in San Mateo, California. Sony Computer …

We speak to the organisers behind the popular games festival about how they hope to kickstart more development careers than ever in 2016

After what can at best be described as a troubled launch, developer Scott Cawthon has removed Five Nights at Freddy’s World from Steam. The game launched with a number of bugs and missing features, with Cawthon admitting that: There are a lot of features that this game should have had …

No more games will be added to the Rare Replay collection, the studio has said. UK developer Rare hinted that more games could be added to its package of 30 titles, when engineer James Thomas said on a live Twitch stream that ‘there could be space for more’. But lead …