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UK firms offers alternative tool to help encourage young people to learn about programming

The next game in the Driver series is almost certainly not what you expect. The original 1999 Driver is a cult hit but the series hit tough times in 2004 following the release of Driver 3. 2011’s Driver: San Francisco, however, surprised many critics – although few of them would …

Work on PS4 title has been "one step forwards, two steps back"

Capcom has admitted that development of its free-to-play online next-gen dungeon crawler Deep Down has been hard going. We’re still facing a ton of challenges. For starters, there’s the whole process of developing games for the newest next-generation consoles,” Capcom’s senior manager of consumer games development Teruki Miyashita said. Every …

The apparent feud between Konami and Hideo Kojima is getting nastier. As spotted by Kotaku, mentions of both series creator Hideo Kojima and his studio Kojima Productions have not only been removed from all promotional material for Metal Gear Solid V but also from images of older titles on Konami’s …

The smartphone version of Hearthstone, due out this month, will not segment players from the existing user base. The game’s lead designer Eric Dodds confirmed to GameSpot that whenever users partake in multiplayer they could be facing off with someone on any platform. “It will be your exact same account, …

Studio is working on “something else” while classic character is being introduced to Project Spark

Epic Games gives $50,000 to architectural visualisation project and smaller games studios

Senior recruiter Felix Hock explains what the developer looks for when hiring new staff

UK and European Nintendo owners are now able to redeem their ill-fated Stars to claim free games. Nintendo announced the planned closure of Club Nintendo earlier this year, bringing with it the end of its existing loyalty program. Any unused Stars that users have accrued will be lost by the …