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Both Nintendo’s Wii U and Sony’s PlayStation Vita boasted impressive sales gains in the US last month. Grabbing the headlines has been Wii U, which sold 60k units in the US in May – that’s 85 per cent up on the previous month and 90 per cent up on May …

To celebrate our 150th issue, we gathered some of our most notable cover stars to mull over how development has changed in the last decade and a half. James Batchelor caught up with the faces of Develop magazine’s past

Intel Developer Blog: Sofftalkblog offers some top tips for mobile app navigation

IPSOS MediaCT’s Tom Cross reveals some of the latest GameTrack figures to uncover where money is being spent on gaming. Gaming has been possible in the digital space for many years now but it is only fairly recently that digital formats have become mainstream. Since GameTrack began in Q4 2011, …

The creator of famed PC zombie game DayZ says it could yet make its console debut before the end of the year. "We’ve toyed around what to do with the console side of things," Dean Hall told Eurogamer. We have to get the core aspects of the game finished before …

Microsoft clarifies recent enhancements to dev kit which it says can be used to increase resolution and graphical effects

Hall already working on tycoon game, still hoping to open studio in New Zealand

Mars on a Stick working on mobile title

Designer hints at four months of crunch on Wii U exclusive

Well over 250 developers around the globe are working on Chris Roberts’ prominent Kickstarter success story Star Citizen. The game has currently raised more than $46m and now has five studios behind it, encompassing a grand total of 268 people. This was revealed in an interview withVentureBeat, in which the …