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New drama based on Grand Theft Auto coming to BBC Two

When you think about football games, your mind probably drifts to FIFA, or perhaps PES and Football Manager. You probably don’t think of Soccer Manager Worlds, a ten-year-old franchise developed by the aptly named SoccerManager.com. Created by the Gore brothers, Andy, Steven and Chris, Soccer Manager is a free-to-play browser-based …

Crytek is currently experimenting with virtual reality and how its CryEngine technology can power such an experience. The company’s managing director Faruk Yerli said Crytek has big plans for the VR space, claiming that his team had "already found solutions" to dealing with motion sickness – an inherent problem with …

Jean-Charles Lacoste, MD of sports monetisation experts InPlayer, discusses what eSports businesses can do to generate better income Newzoo’s recent white paper said that eSports is now worth $200m and that this will more than double by 2017. Audience-wise, pro-gaming is predicted to match the 190m annual audiences achieved by …

The average selling price of a game rose last year to over 31. That’s according to GfK Chart-Track and Entertainment Retailers Association, which said the average selling price of a game in 2014 was 31.40, a 6.7 per cent increase on 2013’s 29.43. This is due to the increase in …

Intel Developer Blog: How game characters can be trained to recreate a player's expressions

The game revenue share held by supermarkets decreased in 2014. Last year, supermarkets took a 25.8 per cent share of the UK games software market by value, down on the 29.7 per cent recorded in 2013. This is according to the latest data from Chart-Track and published by the Entertainment …

The new owner of VideoGamer.com, Swedish firm IBIBI, is on the look-out for other portals to add to its network of technology websites. The network – named Candy Banana – includes VideoGamer, The Sims Resource, Planet Destiny, Sportra and more. Candy Banana will be investing in and improving the existing …

Develop speaks to creative lead Alistair Hope on making the 'perfect organism' terrifying again

TheScore, the Canadian sports news specialists, have released the iOS version of their eSports app after yesterday’s App Store outage. The app completes the initial launch of theScore’s eSports venture, with an Android app and website opened to the public in February. The service brings live scoring updates and coverage …