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UK indie Ustwo Games was the biggest winners at this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards, with the studio picking up three accolades for its seminal mobile puzzle game Monument Valley. The game was recognised for Best Visual Art, Innovation, and Best Handheld/Mobile Game at last night’s awards ceremony in San …

Indie mobile game picks up three awards, while Shadow of Mordor wins Game of the Year

Both development figureheads hold around $1.3bn each

Apocalyptic crowdfunded RPG Wasteland 2 is headed to PlayStation 4. The version hitting Sony’s hardware is a Game of the Year Edition. Developer InXile Entertainment took to the PlayStation Blog yesterday to break the news. The game is coming to PlayStation 4 thanks to Unity 5, which was released earlier …

Graphics card manufacturer AMD has revealed its VR software development kit. The SDK is called LiquidVR and is designed to deal with some issues virtual reality has had thus far, including motion sickness. The way AMD is doing this is low-latency head tracking – in short ensuring that a player’s …

A brand new GeForce Titan graphics card has been announced by Nvidia. The company took to the GDC stage to reveal its Titan X, which packs a massive 12GB of video memory. Current high-end GPUs typically offer between 3GB and 6GB of VRAM. Little else is known about the specs, …

Prototype of strange device features two wand-like controllers

Any investment in eSports is often viewed as a risk. We have been here before with professional gaming. Pro-gaming organisations promote themselves aggressively, attract big investment, only for them to collapse and leave investors walking away with holes in their pockets. It’s perhaps why investment in this current eSports resurgence …

Gamers will be able to use their wireless Xbox One controllers with their PCs later this year. Microsoft has revealed that it will be releasing an adaptor for the Xbox One gamepad so that it can be used wirelessly with PCs later this year. Taking to Xbox Wire, the firm …

Device retains dual touchpads and includes Xbox-style action buttons