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Chip maker and graphics card specialist AMD has launched another scathing attack on its rival Nvidia. AMD’s gaming scientist Richard Huddy has said that his rivals Gameworks functionality – which offers a range of in-game visual extras such as detailed hair and physics – is detrimental to the performance of …

Net revenue drops slightly from last year but beats expectations

Superhero brawler is now mobile games firm’s fastest-growing title in history

PC Gamer’s Tom Senior talks about bringing the platform back to E3 The PC can lose out in the tumult of E3, to the extent that publishers occasionally forget to mention their PC editions entirely when announcing new games. This year, we launched the PC Gaming Show at the Belasco …

The head of Cities: Skylines studio Colossal Order says the industry still has a way to go before ‘true gender equality’

Anyone who doubts the transition from physical to digital need only look to EA’s most recent financials for evidence. Of the $693m revenue generated by EA in the last quarter, $532m came from digital – which is up ten per cent year-on-year. The bulk of it came from digital mobile …

Online collaboration platform planning international expansion and new products

Mobile firm gearing up for release of Vive headset

Everyone wanted Yooka-Laylee. The game is what some publishers have coined an ‘indie-A’. That’s an indie title that has more in common with triple-A blockbusters than low-budget, lower-fi efforts. (We used to call them ‘B-grade’ titles, but the industry loves a new label). Games like Yooka-Laylee don’t come around very …

Pixel Squad CEO Will Mallouk talks about funding, monetising and updating your game via the cloud