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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

id Software founder's stance remains unchanged following surprise Facebook acquisition

Bethesda has announced a slight adjustment to the UK and European (and Australian) release date for Wolfenstein: The New Order. The game had originally been scheduled to arrive in our fair lands on May 23rd but will now settle on these shores at the same time it graces North America …

February is not traditionally a big sales month, but this year was even quieter than usual. Where in 2013 there was a 1.9m decline in month-on-month sales between January and February, this decrease was to the tune of 16.4m in 2014. This is due to the lack of releases on …