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Kempt Games CEO reflects on his experience on BBC show Dragons' Den

Lunar Software may reconsider virtual reality integration closer to release

It may bear the Dead Island name, but Escape Dead Island is bursting away from Deep Silver’s zombie franchise with several big changes. First of all, Escape swaps out the series’ signature first-person combat for a thirdperson take on zombie killing. Players can wield a combination of melee weapons and …

Dovetail Games’ director of brand Doug McConkey on how today’s technology is driving the simulation genre forward. It’s been a busy year here at Dovetail Games. We spent the first half of the year quietly growing our development team as we prepared to announce that we were going to be …

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PC specialist Iceberg Interactive went to Gamescom with some exciting games. Sales director Howard Newmark tells us more. What did you bring to Gamescom this year? The Iceberg Team had a significant presence at GamesCom this year, once again taking up a sizeable part of the Holland Pavilion. We showed …

Intel Develop Blog: How the Intel Integrated Native Developer Experience can help you with cross-platform development

Long awaited UI features available, and to be open source, as engine outfit unveils new stats on user numbers

Gameforge CEO Carsten van Husen tells MCV about the publisher’s new mobile titles and why browser gaming is far from over. Analysts say browser games are in decline. Why continue to support them? The mobile revolution obviously changed entertainment behavior in the sense of partially substituting the PC with mobile …

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the latest major triple-A franchise to abandon Wii U. Activision calls it a ‘judgment call,’ and it is a sound judgment. Call of Duty struggled to perform even on Wii, let alone on Wii U with its significantly smaller install base. Why bother investing …