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New Visibility feature culls parts of models that the player don't see to help streamline performance

Joel Johnson is a Bangalore-based indie game developer and the sole member of digiKhel. Johnson recently released his first game, Orion’s Gold, in collaboration with other indie developers. In this guest column, Johnson talks about the intricacies of collaborative game development, and its benefits to independent game developers. I started …

EA is reportedly closing in on a deal with Comcast to stream games on the telecommunications corporation’s X1 operating system, a move that has the potential to expand EA’s current customer base significantly. Reuters reports the deal would give EA access to Comcast’s 22m users, as well as mark a …

Activison has set into motion some serious internal reshuffling, as the publisher plans to close down its Neversoft studio and merge its current staff with Infinity Ward to form what the company is calling a ‘super-studio.’ Giant Bomb first reported on an internal memo from Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg, …

Dark Souls II has bumped DayZ off its presumed throne on this week’s Steam top sellers chart, grabbing the top spot in its second week out from launch. DayZ didn’t fall far, still selling enough copies during the period to take the runner-up position. A Star Wars series sale has …

New title to offer a sandbox experience 'more akin to Eve Online'

Dan Marshall offers advice on developing multiplayer games following his experience with Gun Monkeys

Pitbull’s senior programmer Chris Wood ponders the benefits of working out of the office

Evolve community manager sacked for seemingly backing owner Sterling It’s disappointing to see that a select few in Turtle Rock and 2K Games management bought into this hysteria” The developer of 2K Games title Evolve has sacked its community manager Josh Olin after comments he made on Twitter regarding former …

Conference followed by two-day hackathon kicks off in Canary Wharf next week, up to £10,000 to be won