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Martin Ganteföhr's first game with Hamburg studio to be unveiled in the next few months

Capcom is to remove Games for Windows Live from three more of its PC titles. Support for Microsoft’s unpopular service will be patched out of Resident Evil 5, Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, with all three moving over to Steamworks. With the global popularity of …

Develop talks to leading composers about the challenges of interactive music

An issue that prevents players of The Sims 4 from uploading characters with specific homosexual name references is being remedied by EA. A video by Why Stuff Is Great, seen below, shows that while players can create avatars with words such as ‘gay’, ‘queer’, ‘lesbian’ or ‘homosexual’ in their name …

Finnish visbility solution handling occlusion in Activision's new blockbuster shooter franchise

The long wait for Destiny is over, with Activision’s shooter officially launching this morning ahead of what could be a record-breaking game launch in the UK. Destiny is the most pre-ordered new IP in GAME’s history and looks set to eclipse the record set by Watch Dogs earlier this year. …

Peter Molyneux's reinvention of the god game genre utilised Develop Award-winning version management tool

Amazon’s Fire Phone will be released in the UK before the end of the month. The device will launch on September 30th and will, as reported yesterday, be an O2 exclusive. O2 won’t, however, be offering the handset contract-free, meaning that buyers will have to sign up to a 33 …

Yes, that White House

Research specialists Juniper Research will reveal the future of buying and selling video games at next week’s Games Retail 2020. The firm’s Eva Hunyadi will look at the expected performance of console and PC games by 2019, the possibility of new consoles and that impact on the retail landscape. Games …