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Studio’s Alex Rigopulos to join funding site’s advisory board

Games development is more accessible than ever, but getting a foot in the studio door is getting tougher. Develop investigates why

More free-to-play games will be criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority for trying to ‘exhort’ money from children. That’s what Nicholas Lovell, director of Gamesbrief and leading consultant on freemium games, predicts. Last week, the ASA ruled against 55Pixels’ Bin Weevils and Mind Candy’s Moshi Monsters for trying to persuade …

James Batchelor finds out how the Earn To Die developer used the cross-platform tech to boost its latest title

A mini-game that attempted to explain the condition suffered by slaves being transported across the Atlantic by likening it to Tetris has been pulled from Steam. Slave Tetris was a mini-game included in self-professed educational title Playing History 2 – Slave Trade, which was actually released back in 2013. However, …

Capcom is considering giving more games the remastered treatment after the success of January’s Resident Evil HD. The company is currently working on an updated version of 2003’s Resident Evil 0 and is completely remaking 1998 classic Resident Evil 2. It has also updated Devil May Cry 4 and DmC: …

It’s an all-star line-up from Square Enix over the next six months, with the return of Tomb Raider, Just Cause, Hitman and Deus Ex. We speak with Europe and Americas CEO Phil Rogers about managing expectations in a perpetually changing games industry It feels like Square Enix is in a …

Multiplay is growing its Insomnia events by almost ten times their current size. The eSports festival – which currently takes place three times a year – is moving from Coventry’s Ricoh Arena to Birmingham’s NEC starting from this December. The GAME-owned Multiplay has signed a three-year deal with the NEC …

Print and digital editions available now; includes an in-depth look at the game grads crisis, eSports game design, the Guildford dev hub and more

French to help promote London as a development hub and grow the city's games business