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Joint venture between Microsoft and Creative England offering up to £50,000 to promising studios outside Greater London

PC and mobile titles to use free global classification process

A mistake by platform holder Sony has seen some Vita owners accidentally getting their hands on a free copy of Legends of War: Patton’s Campaign. Sony has said that the title was mistakenly included” in January’s PlayStation Plus Instant Games Collection range instead of the intended title History: Legends of …

Employees now offered up to 10 full weeks of time away

While the internet continues to debate the hefty 500/$600 price tag handed to Oculus Rift, Palmer Luckey has argued that it represents extremely good value. Not only that, but the pricing means that Facebook itself won’t be making a return on the device. To reiterate, we are not making money …

Kingdoms of Camelot, The Hobbit and Dragons of Atlantis among ‘first-generation’ titles offloaded to Chinese publisher

DreamHack have announced two $250,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournaments for 2016 under the name DreamHack Masters. The events will join the Swedish Modern Times Group-owned company’s five other Open events throughout the year, and bring the total prizepool for CS:GO at DreamHack events in 2016 up to $1m. The first …

24 million users now own mobile puzzle game, with over a third of iOS users also buying Forgotten Shores expansion

Futureplay CEO Jami Laes discusses the studio’s fast-paced development cycle and how it avoids feature creep-related delays

NDreams' VP of development Tom Gillo discusses the skills needed to build great games for virtual reality