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A look at how Microsoft’s Visual Studio Online can help both indies and triple-A giants manage their projects

The games industry shed blood, sweat and tears yesterday at the PlayStation MCV Games 5s tournament. And it was Testology that took away the top prize, besting Sports Interactive in the day’s tense finale 8-2. The QA firm’s team left with glory, replica Jules Rimet trophies and goodie bags from …

Intel Developer Blog: Making music on the go

VR firm has been working with Seattle studio since 2013

Aaron Loeb responsible for some 400 staff at free-to-play developer

The owner of London’s video game caf Loading Bar James Danceshares his thoughts on the new virtual reality headsets and whether they will have mainstream success… Recently I heard about Sony’s VR headset which stole the show at GDC courtesy of Develop’s ‘An Audience With…’ series. It answered some of …

Branch 'represents a fantastic opportunity to localise projects for every Spanish speaking country in Latin America'

Reward Card points and Gift Card credit can now be combined in the GAME Reward app. Users of the GAME Reward app will now be able to combine any credit they have gained by spending cash in store with any Gift Card credit into a single GAME Wallet account. Furthermore, …

Kantar Worldpanel consumer insight analyst Jules Williams examines the opportunities and challenges involved in this lucrative market… Some gamers love them; some hate them. Either way, pre-owned games are an important part of the market. They make up 10 per cent of the UK games market and had a strong …

Further details emerge on developer's financial woes as Crytek UK staff reportedly go unpaid