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A game like Dark Souls has no right to be talked about in the same breath as Skyrim. An incredibly difficult Japanese RPG sounds as niche as it gets, yet Namco Bandai’s series has become a hit. The spiritual successor to PS3 favourite Demons Souls, Dark Souls launched in 2011 …

The Nintendo Pokemon X and Pokemon Y Battle Tournament 2014 has been officially announced. It kicks off on March 1st and takes place at a number of UK shopping centres – beginning in Birmingham’s Bullring and at GAME Brighton. The winners of both Expert (13 years and over) and Junior …

Codemasters's Daniel Oxford discusses the key skills needed for his role in art

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