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Ian Hamilton discusses considerations developers should have in mind to make games open for everyone to play

As if video games aren’t already bad enough, it has now been revealed that they are as addictive as another really bad thing. So says The Sun, anyhow, which has a spread in today’s paper (via @scully1888) with the headline: ‘Gaming as addictive as heroin’ carrying a ‘The Sun Investigation’ …

Diminishing returns for developments and unfair demands from publishers are the reason why Oddworld Inhabitants founder Lorne Lanning closed his studio in 2005. We’d had enough of the terms. We’d had enough of what was happening,” Lanning told Metro. And what was happening was quite simply if you wanted to …

2013 PS3 title Beyond: Two Souls could be the next game in line for a next-gen re-release. CVG reports that two Swiss retailers – World of Games and Alcom – both posted listings for a PS4 version of the game yesterday. They’re both still live, too. Quantic Dream’s Beyond: Two …

Studio has conducted 40 experiments and tests into virtual reality

Sony will be bundling its upcoming racer DriveClub with PS4 hardware. A new Driveclub bundle including a console, controller and copy of the game has been given a European RRP of €439.99 – which should translate to between 375-380 in the UK It’s expected that the bundle will hit around …

A petition urging EA to reinstate toddlers and swimming pools into The Sims 4 has passed 16,000 signatures. Toddlers have been a vital aspect to The Sims series because it is a lifestate that is crucial to the flow of the game,” it reads. Without it, newborns will age straight …

Retailer GameStop wans to increase the amount of exclusive content it can offer customers who use it to pre-order games. VentureBeat reports that to do this it has embarked on a strategy of buddying up with publishers and developers – ideally early on in the development process. GamesStop indicated that …

All hope of a Vita version of BioShock appears to be over. 2K and Sony couldn’t put a deal together when I last checked,” BioShock creator Ken Levine said on Twitter. They seemed way more optimistic about this back in 2011. Wish I could do it myself, but lawyers and …

Modern games consumers are comfortable with the amount of additional digital content and extras that accompany modern games. That’s according to Ubisoft’s VP of digital publishing Chris Early, who told Games Industry that there was no resistance” to Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag’s ‘Time Saver’ DLC that allowed players to …