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The developers behind That Dragon, Cancer have launched a Kickstarter appeal to raise the funds required to finish work on the game. That Dragon, Cancer is the work of Ryan Green and his co-developer Josh Larson, and tells the true story of Green’s family dealing with their son Joel’s fight …

Marmalade enables devs to quickly and easily add casting functionality to their mobile games

Firm aims to give small to medium-sized devs similar technology to larger mobile games firms

Charity event will honour senior programmer Simon Franco and raise money for local hospital

The online woes of Halo: Master Chief Collection continue. In what is becoming a depressingly familiar scenario for online launches, the game is still days on from launch struggling to function online. As a result, developer 343 has temporarily removed the Team Hardcore, Rumble Pit, Halo 4 and SWAT (rotational) …

Abertay University first to use unlimited, non-commercial licence

#include will take place at UKIE's London HQ on Thursday, December 4th

EA has blocked PS4’s SharePlay feature for those playing PS4. GameSpot reports that those trying to stream the game from a friend’s console are greeted by a message reading "viewing the game screen that the host is currently playing is not allowed due to content restrictions in your country or …

New community version allows smaller studios and one-man devs to use full software

Games that actively promote gender equality could be specifically labelled, if new plans from a Swedish trade body are pushed through. Gamasutra reports that Dataspelsbranschen has been awarded KR272,000 (24k) by the country’s government to explore ways in which games that promote gender equality can be positively rewarded. "I do …