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Oscar Clark analyses whether developers should give up control to engage users

Develop asks how AI is developing on new consoles and PC, and where it can go from here

Newcomers to League of Legends creator Riot Games are being offered up to $25,000 to quit their jobs. A new company scheme called Queue Dodge means that any new employee who has been at the studio for less than 60 days can now walk away from their jobs with no …

Bungie says that it feels ‘reborn’ after the success of its Destiny alpha on PS4 last week. The short gameplay taster was made available to a select number of PS4 owners who applied for access, resulting in nearly 6.5m games played. Putting our Alpha out there lit a new kind …

Insomniac has confirmed that gamers will be able to play as a female in Xbox One exclusive Sunset Overdrive. And furthermore, the developer has had a little dig at Ubisoft in the process, which of course came under heavy fire for the exclusion of female characters in Assassin’s Creed: Unity …

Middleware the latest game dev tool to use monthly payment model

After three weeks at No.1, Watch Dogs is now in second place inthe UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It was deposed by EA Sport’s UFC. This is the publisher’s third No.1 title in 2014, following FIFA 14 and Titanfall. Watch Dogs suffered a 41 per cent sales decline …

Nintendo has pledged to support Wii U for the long term and and disputed the belief that the console is struggling. I wouldn’t use that word,” Nintendo America boss Reggie Fils-Aime said when a Kotaku interviewer stated that Wii U has so far ‘struggled’. When asked what word he would …

Computerandvideogames.com will not close yet but its editorial headcount will be reduced, MCV understands. Staff have been informed that the writing team will be cut to three. There are five full-time staff members writing for CVG UK, with additional resource in the US and Australia. Parent company Future will then …

Having enjoyed lots of success in the courts in recent years, Nintendo has now lost a major patent battle with Philips. Bloomberg reports that Judge Colin Birss said a Nintendo unit infringed two Philips patents in a ruling today”, although it was cleared of a third violation. Added Birss: The …