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Lost Planet 3 studio Spark Unlimited has laid off employees and abandoned game development. A former employee confirmed the closure to Polygon after some of the company’s assets were spotted as being up for sale on NeoGaf. Spark’s chief technical officer John Butrovich said that it’s the end of Spark …

It seems that Valve’s beloved puzzle-platformer Portal could be coming to LEGO’s toys-to-life debut. That’s if a supposed shop listing from US retail giant Walmart is to believed, after LEGO fan site Brick Inquirerdug out the details from the firm’s product computer system. The Portal content is said to consist …

2m PlayStation 4 consoles have been sold in the UK, MCV can reveal. Sony’s home console sailed past the milestone over the weekend, and reaches this level faster than it managed to with PlayStation 2. The machine is currently the best-selling UK games console for 2015 so far. All data …

2015 PAX Aus now accepting submissions for Indie Showcase

Insomniac's Liz England demystifies the the tool designed for telling interactive stories

Members of the Unreal Engine community share some of the technology’s most helpful features

Unity community evangelist Joe Robinns shares some of the engine's lesser-known secrets

The Last of Us DLC release Left Behind will get a standalone digital release on PS3 and PS4, Naughty Dog has announced. A post on the PlayStation Blog by the studio’s community strategist Arne Meyer reveals that the prequel of sorts will launch on its own for $9.99 on both …

Chuck Sommerville’s 1989 release Chip’s Challenge is heading to Steam later this month, along with its unreleased sequel. Following nearly two decades of off and on negotiation with the trademark owners, Chip’s Challenge 2 will be released in its original form. When I couldn’t release Chip’s Challenge 2, it hit …

Twitter has suspended tweets containing embedded playable games from the Internet Archive’s MS-DOS collection. Games Industry reports previously posted tweets containing games now only show a link to the game on Internet Archive’s website. No word from the social site on the specific reason for disabling the feature, but the …