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Cubic Motion’s Simon Elms explains the important decisions that must be made before considering motion capture

Swing Copters is the new game from Dong Nguyen, but good luck finding it. Not that the game isn’t available – it is, both on iOS and Google Play. But as The Guardian points out, clones of the game were so quick to arrive that some were even released before …

Developer also cancels unannounced projects

A few years ago, horror games were a rarity. Even the big horror IP such as Dead Space and Resident Evil were abandoning scares in favour of action. That’s been changing this year, and Gamescom was filled with creepy games designed to scare the pants of gamers. The Evil Within …

Once again Gamescom became the home of indie development. There were a number of blockbuster game reveals, certainly. And despite the slew of indie titles, not one of them made it on to the shortlist for Gamescom’s official Game of the Show. Nevertheless, it was the range of inventive indie …

Ascend: Hand of Kul will have its Xbox 360 servers switched off in November, Microsoft has said. The free-to-play Xbox 360 RPG was released in September and then subsequently on PC in May but has already been removed from the Xbox Marketplace. Signal Studios must regretfully announce that despite our …

Microsoft came out fighting at Gamescom this year. If the European team was lacking any confidence after nine months in which PlayStation had dominated, and Microsoft had made wide-sweeping job cuts, there was no sign of it in Cologne. The big blockbusters such as Fable Legends, Halo, Quantum Break, Evolve …

Yesterday, we published a list from Amazon that revealed the games that enjoyed the biggest pre-order spikes during Gamescom. Project CARS and Wii U apparently performed best in terms of percentage increases. Of course, although that shows the latest movers and shakers, it doesn’t really mean anything in terms of …

Blizzard's acclaimed digital CCG takes Golden Cube and Best Gameplay

Ubisoft has released Assassin’s Creed mobile spin-off game Assassin’s Creed Memories onto Apple’s App Store for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The free-to-play title features card battles across different periods of the franchise, such as Renaissance Italy and Colonial America (along with new areas, including Feudal Japan and Imperial …