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Nick Gibson on the struggles this emerging market faces, and whether it can overcome them

Mark Cerny will be named Development Legend at this year’s Develop Industry Excellence Awards. The video games icon will join an elite few to pick up the prestigious accolade. Previous recipients include the likes of Tim Sweeney, Mark Rein, David Perry, Peter Molyneux, David Braben, Charles Cecil, Phil Harrison and …

Graphics card specialist Nvidia has teamed up with PC case manufacturer Bitfenix to offer a range of compact performance gaming PCs. The GeForce GTX Edition Small Form Factor PCs house, as you would expect, GeForce GPUs along with Intel Core i5 or i7 CPUs housed in a custom Nvidia Bitfenix …

PS4 system architect will pick up his prize in person in Brighton on July 9th

Angry Birds creator Rovio has launched a new publishing arm designed to bring more experimental titles to the smartphone games market. It’s called LVL11 and its first title – the Flappy Bird inspired Retry – is available now on iOS in some select countries. We’ve always been doing a lot …

But publisher exceeds expectations thanks to record digital revenue

An app designed to allow folk to swap their physical games has gone live on the Google Play Marketplace. It allows users to list the games they are looking to swap and what titles they are after. They can then either locate other users who live near by for face-to-face …

Update: Disney India has issued the following statement in response to our report on the layoffs in its games division: We are undertaking a restructuring in the Digital business, aligned with our global long-term digital strategy that is focused on sustainable profitability and innovation. The intent is to concentrate all …

Towns, which was Greenlit on Steam over a year and a half ago, has been cut adrift by its developers. It was one of the first titles to pass through the Greenlight system and would in today’s day and age likely be an Early Access title on Steam’s service. At …

Games such as The Swapper, MouseCraft and Titan Attacks won’t be released on Xbox One. That, developer Curve Digital says, is because of the parity clause imposed by Microsoft on indie devs which stipulates that games are released on Xbox One at the same time they arrive on other systems. …