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Indie publisher hiring former PR and journalist as publishing director

Premier PR’s Simon Byron is leaving the company to make the jump into publishing. The former journalist turned PR guru will in July join UK studio Curve Digital, which now claims to be the largest publisher of indie games on consoles in the world, as publishing director. I’ve been very …

Develop speaks with the team to discover what makes this software unique and how it can be used in games

Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has said that one big hit could still be enough to cause Wii U sales to rocket. Following the generally accepted theory on platform lifecycles, it is natural for you to presume that the sales of Nintendo 3DS will drop X per cent each year or …

Melbourne Studio Creates Tech Demo for Oculus Rift and Kinect 2

ESL continues a raft of big eSports investments today with news that the $250,000 ESL Frankfurt Dota tournament this June will be the first in a 12-month series totalling $1m in base prize money. The announcement comes off the back of another $250,000 pledge to August’s ESL Cologne CS:GO tournament, …

Studio working on 'super show' that combines TV and games

The demise of Sega was not inevitable and can be blamed on two decades of bad decision making. That’s according to for Sega of America CEO and current LeapFrog vice chairman Tom Kalinske. "It could have been avoided if they had made the right decisions going back literally 20 years …

A PC port for Bandai Namco’s PS3 release Tales of Zestiria could be in the works, if a new Steam database listing is anything to go by. The listing has been changed from Tales of Zestiria to TOZ since it was originally spotted, but would seem to indicate a Steam …

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