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Disney and Google have teamed up to promote upcoming movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens with a virtual reality app designed for Google Cardboard. Google says it will feature the first-of-its-kind serialized Google Cardboard experience that combines a compelling story, which ties directly into the opening of Star Wars: The …

Retailer GameStop has said that a trio of this quarter’s big releases sold fewer units than it had anticipated. CEO Tony Bartel told investors, as per Seeking Alpha‘s transcription, that sales of Halo 5, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate and Star Wars: Battlefront at GameStop fell short of our expectations”. Of Star …

Square Enix Montreal's technical director Antoine Routon discusses puzzle exploration, perceived time limits and recreating the low-poly art style of the original Tomb Raider

Intel Developer Blog: Find out how the firm's Graphics Performance Analyzers helped improve the latest entry in Giants Software's popular series

Marmalade’s senior SDK engineer Andrew Parker talks us through plans to support the latest version of the widely-used language

John Broomhall talks to Lionhead’s Steve Brown and Fable composer Russell Shaw about an innovative musical mechanic

Studio behind Firefall MMO suffers cuts after disappointing launch in China

A significant portion of staff at Firefall developer Red5 have had their jobs axed. That’s according to MMORPG.com, who reports that 40 employees have been fired disappointing launch for the free-to-play MMO shooter in China. This news comes courtesy of an anonymous source from the studio, who claims that the …

Strong sales for Call of Duty: Black Ops III makes Activision dev this month’s most successful studio

Wii U owners are finally able to buy the Wii U Gamepad separately from the console. Kotaku reports that Nintendo Japan has confirmed that the Gamepad can be bought for 12,800 (70) from today in Japan, There’s no word yet of standalone availability in other regions. Prior to the Wii …