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We speak to Guerrilla Games boss Hermen Hulst on how the Killzone studio is handling it

The Taken King is very nearly upon us, so of course it’s time for a big promotional push from Activision. This new Destiny live-action short maintains the tradition of using Led Zeppelin tracks, this time featuring ‘Black Dog’, much like the game’s most recent trailer. This new video is directed …

Publisher undergoing 'ambitious cost reduction program'

New Maker Kits to be published over the coming weeks

Developer Wales Interactive has said that it was asked for a payment of $22,000 when it approached a YouTuber about possible coverage for its game. Ben Tester, the PR man for the Soul Axiom creators, said that the YouTuber in question had a few million subscribers”. He was told that …

Scotland is home to 97 studios, with over half developing for mobile and tablet

Epic has made 7,600 Infinity Blade assets free on the Unreal Engine marketplace. The content will ship in eight different packs that are available for any developer to access and use in their game. Most of the released assets come from the cancelled Infinity Blade: Dungeons. Assets available include audio …

Content represents $3m worth of investment in art and sound design

Sony has revealed that Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture was the best-selling game on PSN in Europe in August. The platform holder added that The Chinses Room’s title racked up one of the highest week-one sales totals of any PS4 digital-only title to date”. MCV revealed last month that had …

Game of War company Machine Zone’s trade secret lawsuit against Star Wars: Rising developer Kabam has been settled. The two firms issued a joint statement, in which the free-to-play companies say that they have ‘amicably’ solved their differences. It was announced at the end of August that Machine Zone was …