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Sony’s PS4 may be regarded as having more technical power than Xbox One, but it looks like Microsoft’s machine wins when it comes to raw strength. As in, physical strength. Wired’s Battle Damage series recently tested both consoles for durability and it was the Xbox One that emerged as the …

Expert advice on building your own development team

Interconnected, heavily socialised games such as Destiny are asking questions of how the press reviews games. That’s according to Bungie COO Pete Parsons who has told Games Industry that the current way in which games are reviewed doesn’t give titles like Destiny a fair crack of the whip. I think …

Aardvark Swift reflects on the lessons learned during the Launch conference in Birmingham

The chairman of the company behind Candy Crush Saga has quit the company. King says that Melvyn Morris, who is its second largest shareholder, has left for personal reasons”, just days after the release of the company’s release of Candy Crush Soda Saga. Morris has been replaced by board member …

Gerhard Florin steps up to vacant role

Bohemia Interactive has outlined its forward plans for DayZ, indicating that the game won’t exit Steam Early Access until the first half of 2016. The former Arma mod entered Early Access in December 2013 but is not even expected to enter its beta phase until Q4 2015. Furthermore, the price …

A new iteration of Metal Gear Online will be debuted at next week’s The Game Awards in Las Vegas. The game will be shown off by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, according to the event’s producer Geoff Keighley on Twitter. Metal Gear Solid 5 was also unveiled at one of …

The technical troubles that have plagued Assassin’s Creed: Unity have led to publisher Ubisoft scrapping future sales of the game’s lucrative Season Pass. The Pass is no longer available and those who have already purchased it are being offered a free game from the following selection – The Crew, Far …

The creators of Spec Ops: The Line and This War of Mine, as well as Malcolm Ryan from Macquarie University and Jose Zagal of the Videogames Ethics Reader teamed up to discuss the ethics of war in video games