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Ex-BioWare executive producer Casey Hudson has joined Microsoft Studios in the role of creative director. Hudson has begun work at Microsoft’s offices in Redmond, Washington, where he’ll focus on development of games and experience for the firm’s HoloLens headset. The industry vet spent over a decade and half overseeing the …

Bethesda has released a teaser video for the new Doom game originally announced by developer id Software at last year’s QuakeCon. The video shows just a few seconds of gameplay and confirms that Doom will be unveiled at Bethesda’s E3 Showcase on June 14th. The game has emerged over the …

It appears that the upcoming God of War 3 Remastered will be getting its own PlayStation 4 hardware bundle. That’s according to Videogamer, who spotted a listing for the aforementioned bundle on Amazon France. The bundle includes a 500GB PS4, as well as a physical copy of God of War …

PC sci-fi strategy title Civilization Beyond Earth is to set sail on alien seas later this year with a new add-on. Rising Tide adds a host of aquatic-based gameplay, including the ability to construct floating bases on top of water and drill down into new resources below the ocean floor. …

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 …