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A hardcore driving simulation called Spintires is currently the second best selling game on Steam. The UK-made game was the subject of a successful Kickstarter that was funded in July 2013 having beaten its 40k funding goal, raising over 60k. It currently sits behind only the on-sale Just Cause 2 …

Xbox One’s voice commands will continue to be available even in games where developers have chosen to use the recently freed Kinect GPU power for other tasks. Microsoft recently granted developers the power to use bandwidth normally reserved for the no-longer-mandatory camera for other tasks. However, that doesn’t mean an …

Finalist giving away two tickets to smaller studios and start-ups for July 9th ceremony

Visceral’s entry into the world of Battlefield doesn’t automatically mean that gamers can expect a new Battlefield title every year. The Dead Space developer was named as the studio behind this year’s Battlefield: Hardline. The presumption being that the series had been put into a two-year development cycle with DICE …

The Tribal Wars firm praises the melting walls between big business and indie ventures

Microsoft’s Xbox One launch title Forza 5 has won itself a very impressive attach rate. I was humbled and flabbergasted when I learned that one out of every two Xbox One player profiles had played the full version of Forza Motorsport 5,” Turn 10 creative director Dan Greenawalt told IGN. …

Almost three-quarters of social network's iPad users play games regularly

Team behind crowd-funding sci-fi title spread across the world

New studio working on the biggest crowd-funded game IP in history. And it's hiring.

David Braben has been appointed OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. TheBBCreports that the honour was given for his services to the UK’s game and computer industries. Braben, who runs UK developer Frontier, co-created space sim Elite with Ian Bell in 1984, which went on to win huge critical …