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And you thought E3 was no longer relevant? Twitch has revealed that E3 2014 set a new sitewide viewership record for the service with 5.9m unique daily viewers logging on to watch the event. At its peak 405,029 people were watching Twitch’s E3 livestream on day one. Over the course …

The quality of Rockstar’s next-gen Grand Theft Auto V teaser has once again saddened Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima. That’s because, as he previously confessed, he thinks the game is so good it makes others – including his own – look bad. "What Rockstar has created and the world …

New study claims representation of females in UK IT industry is in decline

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