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Microsoft has announced that the PC edition of Rise of the Tomb Raider will be hitting Steam and Windows 10 at the end of January. The action adventure title will be coming out on January 28th, according to the publisher. This is in line with what was leaked from Amazon …

Brad Fuller, who helped create the soundtracks to a number of classic 1980s video games, has died. Working as a composer for video games since 1978, Fuller joined Atari in 1982, where he created the scores to titles including Tetris, Donkey Kong, Marble Madness and Gauntlet II. He also worked …

One of the co-founders of publisher Kalypso Media has left the company with immediate effect. The company has announced that co-owner and co-founder Stefan Marcinek (pictured) has resigned from all management and executive positions after an MBO from fellow co-owner and co-founder Simon Hellwig. Hellwig is now the global MD …

CEO Herman Narula reveals more about the potential of his team's new SpatialOS tech

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 …