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Former executive producer to lead development of new IP at Monument Valley dev

We speak to London-based start-up Improbable about the technology it claims will build bigger game worlds than ever before

Organisations like UKIE have helped to boost the number of clued-in employees joining the industry, but there’s another area that developers need to educate themselves in

The PC-only spiritual successor to Sleeping Dogs is being culled without ever being fully released. Free-to-play shooter Triad Wars, which was announced in late 2014, launched in closed beta in early 2015. Developer United Front, however, has announced that it is to close completely on January 20th. Since the start …

Our who’s who of hiring returns, profiling some of the biggest studios that are currently hiring

Games sold over Steam generated over $3.5bn last year, according to analytics site Steam Spy. The outlet – run by one Sergey Galyonkin – claims that 3,000 new games were released on the platform (up from 1,900 in 2014), and the number of concurrent users reached a whopping 12 million …

Developer Ys Net has, thanks to what appears to be a bizarre data interpretation, decided that its PayPal backers will not be given the same treatment as its Kickstarter backers. The studio decided to poll fans over whether people who backed the game on PayPal after the end of its …

Series could become bi-annual as next entry reportedly delayed until 2017

Studio behind Fez, Spelunky and Bastion ports reveals future projects for handheld platform

Microsoft’s latest OS is “on fastest growth trajectory of any version of Windows”