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A new report from TIGA says that the video games industry contributed 1.02bn to the UK economy in 2013. That’s up from 947m the year before, and resulted in tax revenues of 419m for the Treasury. The total number of people employed by the sector is up too, from 9,224 …

Steam begins at 5pm UK time, June 10th

Project Heera has been selected for the IndieCade Showcase, which will take place at E3 2014 in Los Angeles this week. Developed by Mazhlele, a group of youngdeveloeprs led by Tanmay Chinchkar,Project Heera started out as a BYOG game development competition entry at the 2012 NASSCOM Game Developer Conference. The …

Rolocule Games today revealed its second Rolomotion title, Dance Party. Dance Party is a rhythm dance game, similar to Dance Central or Just Dance. The difference is that this game uses the studio’s Rolomotion tech that delivers motion-controlled gaming via iPhone and Apple TV. The game features local and asynchronous …

Frank Delise, director of game solutions at Autodesk, discusses the firm's ambitions following its Bitsquid acquisition

Leading tools firm development new 3D game engine to contend with the likes of Unreal and Unity

Bungie has been able to increase the resolution of Destiny on Xbox One thanks to the dropping of Kinect. Microsoft confirmed last week that its recent move to make Kinect non-mandatory means that developers will now have the option of utilising GPU resources that were formally reserved for the peripheral …

Nintendo may not be taking to the E3 stage this year but it will have a special Nintendo Direct tomorrow night. What should you expect? Zelda on Wii U, certainly, and most likely some Smash Bros. And some plastic NFC figures. Beyond that? We can’t wait to find out! So …

Sony will take to the stage in the early hours of tomorrow morning to showcase how it hopes to maintain PS4’s lead for the year ahead. The company dominated proceedings last year, but can it repeat the feat by capturing hearts and minds? That all depends on what surprises it …

Microsoft has the honour of getting us underway at E3 2014 later today. The platform holder has a big task ahead of it this year, with nightmares of E3 2013 still fresh in the mind. What surprises does it have in the bag to try and win back the faithful? …