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France continues to experience a healthy games sector, bolstered by growth in physical retail and online. French industry trade body SELL states that €2.7 billion was generated by the country’s video game market in 2014, with €1.9 billion contributed by physical hardware, software and accessories. Software made up the lion’s …

Leading games conference returns to San Francisco from March 14th to 18th next year

Study discusses what studios look for in graduates and new recruits

Developer could create a second team after current title is released

Future has bolstered the GamesRadar+ editorial team. The publisher has made five new additions to the UK team. Kotaku UK news editor Leon Hurley joins as executive news editor and former Official PlayStation Magazine writer Louise Blain is coming on board as news lead. Meanwhile GamesRadar+ associate editors David Houghton …

Founder of Video FX specialist offering advice and support

Koei Tecmo’s Dynasty Warriors has been going for over 18 years now, with eight numbered releases and countless expansions and special editions. And in spite of being – for lack of a better term – very Japanese, the series has been a moderate success in the West. Since the start …

More than $50,000 given to UE4 users with innovative projects

Kiss is a company built on the principle of making the process of getting games to market as painless as possible. The firm was founded in 2012 by industry veterans Darryl Still and Peter King. In the past Still had worked at Atari and launched the publisher’s ST, Jaguar and …

Pro-G Media – the publisher and owner of VideoGamer.com – has been acquired by Swedish company IBIBI HB. As part of the deal, the firm has formed a new technology-focused games network called Candy Banana. The network of websites will include VideoGamer.com, Planet Destiny, The Sims Resource, Game Debate, VideoGamer …