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Bitpay’s European marketing manager Wouter Vonk recently worked with Jagex to help them integrate bitcoin into Runescape. Here, he discusses the payment method’s future in games With numerous players in the gaming industry, such as Xbox Live, Zynga, BigFish, Jagex and Twitch, all attracted to bitcoin’s ability to make in-game …

UK games publisher/developer Dovetail Games is releasing its first game for Xbox One. The firm has signed up for ID@Xbox to release its Dovetail Games Fishing title. The news follows the firm’s announcement that the game is also coming to Valve’s Vive VR headset (try saying that when you’ve had …

PDP will serve as Event Partner for this year’s MCV Awards. "After another record year of growth for PDP, both UK and globally, this was an easy decision to officially be a part of this prestigious event," saidDave Nelson, sales manager for PDP UK."I’m excited that PDP can help celebrate …

Discussion of stereotypes and workforce diversity urges studios: "Don't be scared of trying something new"

Firefox browser now allows developers to create high-end games with WebGL and HTML5

ID@Xbox boss Chris Charla softens on need to ship Xbox titles at the same time as PS4 and Wii U ports

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The overall gaming hardware market reached $67bn in 2014, according to new data presented by analyst Jon Peddie Research. Games Industry reports on JPR’s presentation, which claimed PC accounted for 33 per cent of the market, smartphones came in at 23 per cent, consoles and handhelds brought in 16 per …

'I'm not going away,' says one developer in emotionally charged #1ReasonToBe session

Online games maker and distributor Bigpoint has added a pair of executives to help run its games operations. Ex-Zynga general manager Heather Sinclair joins the company as its head of product optimisation. The position is newly-created, and Sinclair will be tasked with helping drive metrics-supported game design for titles that …