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Last year, Oxford-based physics teacher Nicholas Spargo quit his job to work full time on JRPG passion project, Melancholy Republic. He isn’t your typical indie developer. In fact, he had no experience of games development and even less of coding. I haven’t done a course in it or anything,” says …

The Hospital Club is opening up public nominations for its hClub 100 list to the public today. The hClub 100 is a list of the one hundred most innovative and inspirational within the creative industries. This is its seventh year. There are ten categories – Advertising, Marketing & PR; Art …

Firm seeking feedback for innovative texture compression technique

The filmmaker describes Konami's removal of playable teaser as a "scorched earth approach"

Finally, thanks to digital distribution, developers can ditch those creatively restrictive publishers and goit alone. MCV speaks to those companies who insist the right publisher can be a force for good Developers can release games on their own, with no real need for publishers. Why should they still turn to …

Film maker Guillermo del Toro has said he was surprised at the lengths Konami has gone to to remove PT from PSN. Speaking to IGN, delToro described the publisher’s attempts to remove the game from PSN, and preventing consumers from re-downloading the demo if they already owned it as a …

The Witcher has carved out a name for itself as a graphically-impressive, critically-acclaimed epic fantasy franchise. This year, the trilogy comes to a close. MCV looks at the best merchandise from the iconic IP While cinematic adaptations of books are now a common sight, video game takes on literature are …

Epic Games gives mobile studio $18,000 towards action game Mega Blast

The newly-launched UK branch of consumer website Ars Technica has pledged to not ‘pull any punches’ in its coverage of the latest technology. Senior editor Sebastian Anthony (pictured), who has hired former GameSpot journalist Mark Walton to boost Ars’ gaming credentials, says the firm will have ‘zero fluff’ and go …

Experts discuss how developers can best prepare for releasing in new territories