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Amid the hype surrounding Early Access titles like DayZ you might be forgiven for not knowing what Starbound is. It’s a sandbox title being made by London-based Chucklefish and is another in a list of successes on Valve’s Early Access platform. It has sold over 1m copies. It was initially …

Back in 1975, Franz Koch formed a company called Koch International Music in Austria, which specialised in the distribution of German Folk and classical music recordings. Franz is a natural entrepreneur, so expanded his interests into the manufacturing of CDs soon after with Koch Digitaldisc. The company extended its music …

Codemasters has said that the construction of a brand new game engine is the reason why F1 2014 won’t be released on PS4 and Xbox One. The game was revealed last week for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, with Codemasters also confirmed that F1 2015 will indeed be a next-gen …

Dare to be Digital 2014 team Unorthobox talks exclusively to Develop about working on their entry title AllY.

Boxart for the rumoured Assassin’s Creed: Rogue has leaked online. The PS3 and Xbox 360 game was listed by a Swiss retailer last week and new images unearthed by Access the Animus now confirms it will be released on November 11th. Other images published by the site show a hooded …

A white Xbox One will be released later this year. Following rumours yesterday, Polygon has word from a Microsoft spokesperson that bundles featuring both Madden NFL 25 and Sunset Overdrive will launch later this year – the latter of which including a white version of the console. The former SKU …

The Dare to be Digital 2014 team talks to Develop about working on their entry title Kuria

The Dare to be Digital 2014 team talks to Develop about working on their entry title of the same name

Capcom has announced a 1080p remake of its 1996 survival horror classic Resident Evil. THe assets released so far appear to show a build based around the 2002 GameCube remake, although this new version will have an all-new visual makeover, complete with the option to switch between 16:9 and 4:3 …

Gamers will shortly receive more money for the games they trade in at GameStop. That’s according to Kotaku, which has word from an insider at the retailer about a simplification to its trade-in structure that’s due to be implemented on August 18th. The headline figure – the average price paid …