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Xing Wang, MIT alumni and former Zynga executive producer, discusses the careful decisions that need to be made when adding features to your long-tail games

Manchester United, Cardiff or West Brom fans are from this Saturday being invited to hand over their season tickets at GAME. For those whom United’s 0-3 thrashing at the hands of Manchester rivals City last night was too much, the retailer is offering a copy of either FIFA 14, PES …

Project leads for open-source project in discussions with platform holders

Palmer Luckey has taken to Reddit to address some of the concerns being raised in the wake of Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus. Among the statements are assertions that it will result in a lower RRP for the consumer version of Rift, a shorter wait for a full release and the …

Intel Developer Blog: eBook offers insight into how you can make performance optimisations for Android applications on x86 architecture

Go Kane is a fast-paced drug dealing game, where our main character, Kane, has only 25 turns to make enough money to free his girlfriend for the clutches of a kidnapper.” That’s how Amit Goyal, co-founder of SuperSike Games, describes the studio’s sophomore release, Go Kane (a play on ‘cocaine’). …

Peter Molyneux’s 22Cans now exists purely to serve Godus. Founding a company, an entity, grounded by the thought that we aren’t just going to go and fill up one idea after another idea. We’re going to be centralizing all of our creativity on one entity, and that entity is Godus,” …

Starship Group headed up and funded by Evolution and BigBig founder Martin Kenwright

It’s becoming a thankfully common trend for developers to target kids at a young age in order to teach them more about coding, but rarely is it focused specifically on girls. And yet that’s exactly the target audience for Mind Candy’s Poppet magazine, a new publication dedicated to teaching young …

Kahl Henderson of Scottish sound experts Savalas on the role audio can play in a game’s narrative