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First it was Germany and now France is doing its bit to try and force Valve to allow Steam users to re-sell their digital purchases. French consumer association UFC-Que Choisir is unhappy about some of clauses in Steam’s subscriber agreement, as translated by Reddit. As with the German case, UFC …

Gearbox has announced Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak will be released in just over a month. Hkarak is a prequel to the Homeworld series and adds ground combat and tactics to the space-faring mix. It’s due out on PC on January 20th. It’s developed by Blackbird, which houses plenty of former …

John Broomhall talks to Star Wars Battlefront audio director Ben Minto about recreating the films’ iconic audio

Intel Developer Blog: Intel offers a comical look at famous historical figures and fictional characters dealing with games development

Studio still stunned by surprise success of digital action game

Rival Kingdoms and Samurai Siege dev among 15 of the UK’s fastest growing start-ups

Developer Psyonix has revealed the staggering success of 2015 hit Rocket League. The game has since its launch in July raised almost $50m in revenue, The Wall Street Journal reports. It also now has over 8m registered players, up from the 6m reported in September. The studio also reiterated that …

Galway customer service branch effectively shut down, according to local newspaper

Runes of Magic firm chooses open source log management platform for its MMOs

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has revealed that he is ‘contractually forbidden’ from discussing his split with Konami. However, in an interview with The New Yorker, the developer was able to discuss the difficulties of being accountable to a large publisher and the opportunities that going independent will afford …