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The gamble that is Steam Early Access has been demonstrated in numbers. EEDAR’s head of insights and analytics Patrick Walker has on Games Industry said that only 25 per cent of Early Access have ever gone on to receive a full Steam release. This is as true for games released …

A developer who tweeted that he was going to kill Gabe Newell” has re-joined the studio whom he left to protect. Mike Maulbeck quit studio Code Avarice last month after publicly throwing a tantrum after its game Paranautical Activity was incorrectly listed on Steam, leading to the game being pulled …

Jon Walsh discusses the future of the SDK and how it fits in with its monetisation services

Nick Gibson reflects on the constant changes that can affect what apps are allowed on the social network

Firm 'not developing any significant new games for release in fiscal 2015'

Studio co-founders to change how they interact with community moving forward

Codemasters' parent plans to purchase Western mobile developers next year

Plans to offer an offline mode in Elite: Dangerous have been dropped. Although Frontier originally said in its Kickstarter pledge that the game would be playable offline, it has now backtracked on the idea and confirmed that players will need to be connected to the internet at all times. A …

Studio lays off a number of staff following decision to adopt premium price

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare remains the UK no.1, with Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Unity entering the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 in second place. Unity did manage to improve upon the week one sales of last year’s Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, however, which is pretty impressive seeing …