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Develop analyses the key data and asks the business model’s biggest advocates about the future of free on desktops

A now-removed update to Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls Online FAQ has claimed that the console version of the MMO has suffered a big delay. The PS4 and Xbox One version of the game had been scheduled to arrive in June. As captured by Reddit, the FAQ post last night read: …

Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has vowed to prevent Nintendo suffering another year of losses. Having reported its first ever loss in 2010, the company yesterday reported its third successive annual loss on the back of weak Wii U sales and lower than expected 3DS sales. Two and three fiscal years …

DayZ will come to consoles, hopefully sooner rather than later, says the game’s creator. Speaking as the title sailed passed 2m copies sold, Dean Hall says that sales have now gone beyond the firm’s own optimistic ‘what if’ predictions. I anticipated strong demand for the game, but its high sales …

Event returns for its ninth year on Thusday, November 13th

Nintendo is to develop a completely new console designed specifically to target China and other emerging economies. Bloomberg reports that Nintendo has opted for a brand new machine rather than trying to rustle together a cut-down version of an existing machine such as the Wii U. We want to make …

Unreal Engine’s mid-to-high level production efforts mapped out for developers to view and comment on

‘Until Western developers learn how to do it better, you won’t see so many strong free-to-play games in the West’

Crysis maker’s free graphics debugger now open for modification

From Software’s Dark Souls II has seen more than a million copies shipped on Xbox 360 and PS3 in Europe and America. Clearly that doesn’t include the PC game, which came out over a month after the console versions and after the end of the financial year. From data shows …