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Harmonix has confirmed the rumours – Rock Band 4 is in development and is on the way to next-gen consoles. The headline is that the studio intends” for the game to be backwards compatible with all existing hardware you may have ever purchased for the series, and is working with …

Valve reckons it has cracked the motion sickness problem that virtual reality headsets cause with a number of players. Boss Gabe Newell admitted to The New York Times that he’d reacted badly to previous demonstrations of VR tech, describing them as the world’s best motion sickness inducers”. However, the company’s …

Tool allows developers to trigger peripheral lighting with in-game actions

Two new members added to live games management team

Space exploration game takes Grand Prize and Excellence in Design at San Francisco ceremony

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 …