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This year’s London Games Conference on November 19th will have a number of high profile speakers from around the games industry sharing their knowledge. Paul Sulyok, CEO and founder of Green Man Gaming, tells us about the power of Playfire and the changes games marketing is facing For the unaware, …

Evolution has said that it will give out free DLC to existing owners of Driveclub. The developer had planned to release a number of premium DLC packs for the troubled PS4 racer this month, but it has now chosen to drop the charges for existing owners as recompense for the …

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 …