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Europe’s largest teaching laboratory with access to PlayStation development kits has been opened today at Abertay University in Dundee. Abertay’s has now permanently installed 30 new PlayStation Vita development kits, adding to its existing stock of PS3 and PS4 dev kits. And students have access to all of the hardware …

New toolset includes pre-built and customisable male, female and creature models

An Oculus Rift-rivalling virtual reality headset from Sony will be revealed next month. That’s according to TechRadar, which claims to have word from an inside source” that Sony will present the new hardware at GDC 2014 in San Francisco on March 17th. Said the source: "The quality and resolution are …

Phoenix Online Studios, most recently known for its episodic adventure series Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, is expanding into game publishing with the formation of Phoenix Online Publishing. Phoenix Online is co-founded by Vitek Goyel, who also heads PixelTek, a games development services company based in Mumbai. Phoenix Online Publishing …

Publisher confirms series revival in the offing

Online games portal Kongregate has named Emily Greer as its new CEO, effective February 28th. Current incumbent, brother Jim Greer, is stepping down from his role to help launch a not-for-profit political action organisation. Jim Greer will continue on at the company as head of technology part-time. Develop has the …

Craft Computer Club to education children programming languages such as Scratch, Python and HTML5

Football Manager 2014 has broken the record for the most consecutive No.1s in the PC charts. The title has racked up 16 No.1s in a row. If the game can hit 22 No.1s in total (not necessarily consecutively) it will beat the record for the most No.1s of any PC …

PS4 will remain in short supply until around April, predicts Sony. The new console has been a huge success for the platform holder. According to UK retailers, PS4 is the best-selling games machine this year so far, and since January has sold around double the number of units of its …

Microsoft is banking on EA’s Titanfall to help Xbox One fight back against PS4. The Xbox and PC shooter was available as a beta to gamers this week, and has received significant praise from critics and fans. As a result, retailers have told MCV that there’s been a ‘dramatic spike’ …