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Location-based title coming to smartphones next year

Having seemingly claimed that it had scrapped much of its work on Hellblade and started over, developer Ninja Theory now insists that the game remains on track. The studio earlier today took to Twitter to say: We are committed to the open development of Hellblade from first playable (vertical slice) …

We ask studios what they think of Apple's new device and its potential for games

New division to focus on GPUs, virtual reality and augmented reality

XBLIG titles will no longer be sold from September 2017

Ten years ago, when the Forza franchise debuted, developer Turn 10 found that car manufacturers weren’t all that interested in video games. They looked at games as a small licensing revenue thing,” says Dan Greenawalt, creative director at Forza creators Turn 10. Gamers were kids, so these manufacturers didn’t have …

New operating system features extra dev tools GamePlayKit, ReplayKit and Model I/O

Birmingham NEC is just the start of a proposed global expansion for Insomnia. Event organiser Multiplay – which was acquired by GAME in a 20m deal in March – runs Insomnia three times a year. It has historically taken place at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena. It has now outgrown that venue, …

But can it avoid the same fate as previous troubled microconsoles?

The ill-fated experiment otherwise known as the Amazon Fire Phone is now over. The Verge reports that Amazon has confirmed that it has sold through its entire Fire Phone inventory across the globe and that it has no plans to replenish [it]”. In other words, it’s not going to build …