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Sega is set to offer 200 employees ‘voluntary retirement’ as it aims to improve profitability. The publisher expects to make a loss of 9.85m for the second quarter of the 2015 financial year. It has put much of this down to the delay of the release of its newpachislot and …

New tools will enable developers to build all the server-side features needed for their games

Digital is here, and digital is growing, but there is no scenario where disc-based video games will disappear from the market, according to GameStop. Disc-based games will be around forever,” CEO Paul Raines told Forbes. The market has seen physical music sales down 50 per cent from its peak and …

Operating income forecast falls by 57 per cent to £76.6m for first half of 2015 fiscal year

Surprise! There’s another game on the way from one of the creators of The Stanley Parable. And it’s arriving very, very shortly. It’s called The Beginner’s Guide and is the first solo project from Davey Wreden. What is it and how will it play? We don’t know for the moment, …

Intel Developer Blog: Advice for improving memory usage, avoiding Android memory leak and analysing your Android memory consumption

Animated short film ‘A Boy and His Kite’ honoured at SIGGRAPH with Best Real-Time Graphics and Interactivity Award

Electronic Arts has partnered with theme park Great America of California to construct a brand new attraction based on the Mass Effect franchise. The attraction will be on display in the theme park’s Action Theater starting in 2016. It will feature motion-based seating, a live narrator that interacts with park …

Krillbite has announced the console release of its horror game Among the Sleep will launch on PS4 this December. In a post on theUS PlayStation Blog, the studio’s chief of marketing and community Kristina Halvorsen revealed the indie title will release on December 10thfor Sony’s hardware. No word on the …

GameStop aims to hire 28,000 additional staff for this year’s holiday season, the US retailer has revealed. Games Industryreports the figure tops the 25,000 extra seasonal employees the company looked to add for the 2014 holiday season by 12 per cent. "Providing exceptional customer service is the cornerstone of GameStop’s …