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Founder of Epic says virtual reality will be used by ‘billions of people’ in ten years time

Another indie game has reported a strong performance on Nintendo systems. The official Titter account for Retro City Rampage has revealed that the game has made more money on 3DS than it has Xbox 360, even if it hasn’t matched the unit sales seen on Microsoft’s machine. Retro City Rampage …

Hayes joins the board following £250,000 investment from Mercia Fund

Hypersloth co-founder Ashley Stancill on working with UDK to develop Dream for Oculus

Microsoft has insisted that the dropping of Kinect is not the most requested Xbox One amendment. We’re always trying to match what consumers are asking for,” Xbox boss Phil Spencer told Edge. I always want to make sure that we’re in tune with what current or potential customers are asking …

Development environment to allow easy porting of iOS and Android games for Vita

The former boss of Sega’s Western arm Mike Hayes has joined the board of virtual reality and virtual world firm nDreams. Hayes left Sega in the summer of 2012 after an eight-year stint. His move to nDreams comes following recent investment from Mercia Fund Management to aid its development of …

Danish studio Press Play reflects on Max, the first Unity-powered game on Xbox One

The ability to upload gameplay clips to YouTube will be patched into the console today, Microsoft has confirmed. It comes as part of an update to the YouTube app. Users will need to adjust their system settings as detailed on the Xbox Wire to get everything up and running. The …

Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian’s startup Industrial Toys has received a sizable investment from Accel Partners to develop his new mobile title, Midnight Star. Games Beat reports on the the funding deal, a $5m investment to help complete Seropian’s upcoming tablet shooter. The industry veteran served as president and CEO of …