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An unconfirmed number of employees at online game company Kixeye are reportedly out of the job. A brief from Gamasutra confirmed the news with a source involved with the cuts,” and points to multiple and job opportunity and condolence posts from other game company’s on Twitter over the past day …

Rocket League has hit 5m downloads in only a matter of weeks, developer Psyonix has announced. Polygon reports on the milestone, which is made up by the combination of PC and PS4 purchases with PS Plus downloads. According to the studio, the figure doubles the lifetime downloads of Supersonic Acrobatic …

Brighton-based mobile studio receives investment from angels and industry members

Zeboyd developer Robert Boyd warns of disturbing trend toward higher-price titles

It’s a pretty safe bet to say that the trailer for Dropsy: A Point & Click Hugventure is the most bizarre thing you’ll have seen today. Or maybe ever. Devolver has announced plans to publish the game, which was Kickstarted back in 2013, on PC, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android …

A number of Sega’s PC properties will soon be available on a ‘try before you buy’ basis. The publisher has teamed up with GameSessions to offer titles such as Football Manager 2015, Company of Heroes 2, Sonic Generations and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine via the online service. Should users go …

Peter was pretty much a broken man.” Those are the words of 22Cans CEO Simon Phillips, who has told Develop that the disastrous events surrounding Godus earlier this year took their toll on one of Britain’s most famed developers. This really kicked the shit out of him. I think he …

We speak to 22cans’ Simon Phillips about Godus, Bryan Henderson and repairing the reputation of the world’s most divisive games developer

Free-to-play creation suite Project Spark is now available in a $50 Year One Edition. The Xbox One and PC title was released last October, since when it has been downloaded nearly 3m times. This new SKU bundles nearly all of its premium content together and also includes three months Project …

Four new releases in the Japanese software Top Ten last week wasn’t enough to dethrone continued phenomenon and chart success Yokai Watch. The Busters spin-off of the massively popular franchise was number one for a third consecutive week, shifting over 118,500 units. That was despite new competition from Capcom’s Sengoku …