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Last week marked the final E3 before virtual reality would be made available to consumers. Valve’s Vive VR headset arrives this year, while Oculus Rift and PlayStation’s Morpheus are set to launch in early 2016. The tech is in place, but there remains a question mark over the content. Sony …

The licensing expert discusses why great developers should 'stay foolish'

America’s mixed feelings on its relationship with the Confederate flag has led to a controversial decision from Apple to pull many games that contain it. The flag, a symbol of the American South, is considered by many to have racist associations owing to its origins from the American Civil War …

London Venture Partners makes first US investment

John Broomhall looks forward to the Develop Conference Audio Track’s tenth anniversary

PS Vita TV has sold 166,165 units

Any potential updates to the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Batman Arkham Knight have been put on hold while the team tries to fix the broken PC release. The PC SKU has been pulled from sale amid a wide range of technical issues. Now developer Rocksteady says that it …

Developers making a game with a budget of at least €100,000 can now take advantage of incentives

You can’t win E3. You can lose it, of course. It was Xbox that ‘lost’ E3 in 2013 after it mismanaged the reveal of Xbox One. Meanwhile, Ubisoft had a few PR fires to put out last year, which saw it suffer a somewhat disappointing expo. So it’s with some …

It appears that some European PSN users are having trouble downloading content at anything approaching an acceptable speed. Anecdotal evidence emerged earlier this week in the approach to the release of Batman: Arkham Knight, with reports of 99+ hour download times for the 50GB title, even on the best of …