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PC hit This War of Mine will arrive on iPads and Android tablets next month, developer 11 Bit Studios has announced. The tablet version was originally revealed for iOS in March, with the latest announcement confirming the game will launch simultaneously on Apple’s App Store and Google Play. This War …

Despite being one of the smallest countries in Europe, Luxembourg plays a big part in the global games industry. The tiny nation has long been regarded as a flagbearer for online gaming, thanks to dedicated investment in the sector by the local government. Game streaming service OnLive set up its …

Kinect is not dead. That’s the message from Microsoft, despite the fact the peripheral was not mentioned once in its Xbox E3 press conference earlier this week. We are absolutely continuing to support Kinect," Xbox’s Aaron Greenberg told GameSpot. We’re continuing to support Kinect where it makes sense [and] innovating …

Virtual reality’s social credentials may remain a source of debate, but it sounds like the industry sprouting up around is quite the happy family. Sony studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has told Polygon that, as has been hinted at before, the major players in the VR sector have been giving each …

Epic's Alan Noon continues his UE4 tutorial of creating sprites, basic movements and a simple UI

Fallout 4 developer Bethesda admits that its upcoming RPG could have looked better – but only at great cost to the gameplay. Some observers have questioned the visual fidelity of the recently revealed Fallout 4, arguing that its character models in particular fall short of the standards laid down by …

‘Mechanical apartheid’ was one of the terms that cropped up in the E3 2015 promotion of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, causing corners of the internet to erupt in anger. Some were clearly unhappy that a specific period of brutal human suffering could be used in a manner perceivably similar to …

Bigpoint’s Shawn Lord on how you can bag that career leap

Senior recruiter Carrie Barcroft on what the company looks for in prospective candidates

New version of The Foundry’s art tool adds ‘Pins’ to its infinite canvas