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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 …

The grand digital vision for Xbox One has not been forgotten. That’s the message from Xbox boss Phil Spencer who told GameSpot at GDC that the future for the company’s console remains very much digital-focused. "We believe in a digital future on our box," Spencer said. "I know when I …

The high-end graphics card market has just been redefined. Nvidia has overnight announced the GTX Titan Z – effectively two Titan Black’s on a single card. The monster device houses an incredible 12GB of video RAM and is epcifically engineered for multi-monitor and 5K gaming thanks to its two GK110 …

DICE has followed news of a delay to Battlefield 4’s Naval Strike DLC on PC by announcing that it will also be late to Xbox One. The studio says that issues in the animation system that hinder players from engaging targets in set circumstances using popular weapon configurations” is the …

Once there were PCs. Then there were mobiles. Next there will be virtual reality. That’s the prediction of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who last night told investors following his acquisition of Oculus that the move was made with an eye on the long-term future of computing. [VR is] the next …

Future CEO Mark Wood is to step down, with CFO Zillah Byng-Maddick taking his place. Byng-Maddick was only appointed CFO in November. Wood will remain on the board for the time being. Zillah has been a phenomenon since she came aboard, re-organising the Finance function and transforming the way we …