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Silicon Studio on a post-processing effects tool for games designed to rival the quality of Hollywood blockbusters

Microsoft has confirmed that it shipped 1.1m combined units of the Xbox One and Xbox 360 in the three months ending June 30th. Crucially, what isn’t known are the precise numbers for Xbox One, nor how many of those units were actually sold. In the corresponding quarter last year prior …

EA has taken the surprising step of pushing back its next Battlefield title from its traditional pre-Christmas release. Battlefield Hardline will now release in early 2015” due to changes that will be implemented following feedback from the recent beta. The more we thought about these ideas, the more we knew …

Studio number three in our series of developer profiles is N3V Games, formerly known as Auran, creators of Dark Reign.

Riot Games is attempting to crack down on the extreme” toxic behavior that has plagued the online play of the studio’s popular MOBA League of Legends for years. Riot’s lead designer of social systems Jeffrey Lin took to Twitter to announce the news, then later appeared on a Reddit post …

The average salary for game developers saw a year-on-year decrease of 2 per cent in 2013, according to the latest Game Developer Salary Survey. Gamasutra’s research found that professionals working in audio made a higher salary than all other disciplines, with professionals making an annual average of $95,682 USD. Programmers …

Marty O’Donnell has settled his case against Bungie for terminating the studio’s former composer without cause.” O’Donnell announced he had been terminated from Bungie without cause” back in April, and filed suit against the developer for unpaid benefits just last month. Bungie initially denied all allegations, but it now appears …

The growth of mobile gaming will erode the console and PC games market by 12 per cent over the next five years. That’s according to Juniper Research which says that the sector revenues will decline from $46.5bn to $41bn by 2019. Despite this, console and PC games will still account …

"For a long time, I wanted to make a game about architecture."

Ivowed never to touch World of Warcraft – or any other MMO – again after quitting to focus on my final year at university back in 2006. So I deleted my level 60 character, closed my account and threw away the game discs to prevent myself from being tempted back …