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It looks as if the first of two big Steam sales will kick off next week. ShackNews reports that messages in a Steamworks developer group date the Steam Autumn sale for November 25th. It will run until December 1st. It then adds that the Steam Winter sale will run from …

Bigpoint producer Bigpoint producer Jonathan Lindsay discusses how Western developers can improve their chances in the world's most elusive markets

Creative studio A52 explains how custom scripts and VRay rendering brought the worlds of Xbox One racing and pixel art together

A quarter of a century after its release in the UK, the Mega Drive could be a star performer this Christmas. The Daily Mail reports that sales of AtGames’ Sega Mega Drive console have jumped 400 per cent at Argos in recent weeks”. This version of the machine includes two …

The Develop Award-winning studio has stolen the spotlight this year with episodic adventure Life is Strange. James Batchelor finds out more about the French developer

The flurry of triple-A console releases has seen console publishers race back to the top of the TV advertisement battle in the US. VentureBeat reports Activision claimed 36 per cent of what is referred to as the digital share of voice (SOV) of the entire game industry’s TV ad output …

YouTube is now siding with its content creators over games publishers. In a blog post called ‘A Step Towards Protecting Fair Use on YouTube‘, Google copyright legal director Fred von Lohmann says that the firm is going to be defending Fair Use going forwards. As such, it will be refusing …

Intel Developer Blog: Find out how Profile Guided Optimisation can boost your current project

QA veterans Marc Kent and Edd Buffery join the firm as new facilities opened in Warsaw and London

Kinect director will now be working on HoloLens and Microsoft Edge