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MCV can today reveal that the UK video games market generated 3.944bn in consumer spending during 2014. The number is 13 per cent higher than 2013’s figure, when the UK market reached 3.48bn. This year’s data was calculated by MCV with trade body Ukie and a number of key data …

id Software co-founder to share his thoughts on best development practices and future of the tech

Money will be used to boost creative industries and generate jobs across games, TV, film and more

The biggest eSports league in the world, ESL, has released a white label development toolkit called ESL Matchmaking. The tool, to be first used in UK indie developer R8 Games’ upcoming anti-gravity racer, Formula Fusion, will allow competitive-grade ranked multiplayer matchmaking. The game, hailed as a spiritual successor to the …

Analyst Michael Pachter has continued his long-running criticism of Nintendo with another scathing attack against the platform holder. I think that they are still in denial about the Wii U failure,” he told Game Informer. You keep seeing this stat so we’re up 82 per cent – yeah, 40,000 units …

OpenFeint founder's studio wants to reach one billion players

New product from The Game Creators launches at GDC, preview on Steam today

Kent is deputy head of the games department at Teesside University, as well as director of the Animex Festival. While studying Illustration in 1997, Kent undertook a placement working on Shadowman at Acclaim and realised her future lay in games. After graduating, she joined the Pitbull Syndicate, going on to …

Intel Developer Blog: Why the developer used Intel RealSense to enable gesture and voice commands

Daybreak Game Company purges two studios, loses EverQuest development director