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It allstarted with a mod. Well, actually, that’s not necessarily true. The origins of the MOBA are far murkier than that. The common conception is that they are the new kid on the block, but they have actually existed for decades. You can trace the MOBA all the way back …

The Last of Us developer says recent spate of departures and hires is "not significant at all"

Developer collective The Outer Heaven says that Konami has given it permission to re-make 1987’s original Metal Gear. A few days ago, we received word from Konami that said they were happy for us to go-ahead with our remake of the classic MSX game, Metal Gear, as long as we …

Beta version already available on iTunes

UK developer Sumo Digital is heading up the Xbox 360 version of Forza Horizon 2. The cross-gen game was revealed by Microsoft yesterday and it later emerged that while Playground Games is creating the Xbox One release, the last-gen version is being made elsewhere. Specifically, Sheffield, it now turns out. …

Proprietary tech to enable developers to squeeze more power out of iPhone and iPad

Latest iteration includes new full body inverse kinematics solution and 3D Scatter Blend

A new first-party Sony studio called Pixelopus is set to be revealed at E3 along with its upcoming debut game. That’s according to theNew York Times, which says the studio houses developers from a games course at the Carnegie Mellon University, where students had been working on prototype titles for …

Sony's latest developer event will take place on Wednesday, June 18th

The processing cost of outputting high-end graphics on iOS devices is to be reduced. That’s thank to a new proprietary tech from Apple called Metal that allows devs to get more out of an iPhone or iPad’s innards, in much the same way as AMD’s Mantle promises to do for …