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Despite expanding on the successes it has enjoyed with the Kindle, Kindle Fire and potentially promising Fire TV, Amazon’s new Fire Phone has been criticised by some analysts. Aside from the device’s 3D Dynamic Perspective screen, which tracks a user’s head and alters the screen image to create a pseudo-3D …

CEO Andrew Day ponders the challenges of a dynamic but fragmented market

Don't expect many more first-party blockbusters on PlayStation's handheld

Only a few team slots left for the game industry five-a-side competition, sponsored by PlayStation

Device features 3D interface and head-tracking that can be used in games

Martin Carrier expresses concerns over sudden decrease in incentives

Oh, Phil. The ever-controversial Phil Fish yesterday took to Twitter to compare YouTubers who post game footage to pirates, before going on to delete or suspend his Twitter account entirely. "YouTubers should have to pay out a huge portion of their revenue to the developers from which they steal all …

Johnnemann Nordhagen's indie career continues in San Francisco

US games journalism powerhouse Polygon has dropped three staff members as part of a tweak to its editorial direction. Features editor Russ Pitts, video director Tom Connors and video editor and motion graphics designer Adam Barenblat left the website this month in a move that editor-in-chief Chris Grant links to …

Province ‘not a hotbed’ for games, claims publisher CEO Yannis Mallat