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Jakks Pacific has partnered with Nintendo to launch the first ever Nintendo licensed Mario Kart ride-on. Known as the Super Mario Kart Ride-On, the vehicle is the real life counterpart to Mario’s kart as seen in the Mario Kart 7 video game. While it doesn’t come with a barrage of …

The fate of BioShock Vita can certainly be described as ‘uncertain’. The game was announced in June 2011 at E3 but has been MIA ever since. The first worrying noises began emerging in late 2012 when Ken Levine said that the SKU’s future was in the hands of business people”. …

When Side, 3Lateral and Cubic Motion joined forces to craft the Synchronicity performance capture tech demo, they also built a testament to collaboration. Develop investigates what the firms are up to

Maker of Pirates: Tides of Fortune and Edgeworld bolstering its presence in the Far East

The Develop Awards are back this July, with four new prizes up for grabs, and you can lobby to be nominated for one right now. The hugely popular industry event will once again reward the very best innovators in games development from the UK and Europe. It will be held …

Having been surpassed by the Radeon R9 290X and GTX 780Ti, the Nvidia Titan is staging a big comeback. The new GTX Titan Black, like its predecessor, packs 6GB of onboard memory running at 7GHz with a peak frequency of 980 MHz and the full GK 110 die complete with …

Purpose-built handheld BioShock may be scrapped by publisher

Mojang is currently testing mini-games in Minecraft. As detailed in the video below, the current beta build for the subscription Minecraft Realms service offers mini-games as a selectable option from the main menu. The current offering includes Cake Defence 2, Blocks vs Zombies, The Walls, Autospleef and Dash of Doom. …

Digital games retailer Green Man Gaming says it could begin publishing games later this year. CEO Paul Sulyok told MCV’s sister publication PCR that becoming a publisher was certainly something we’d consider in 2014”. He added that if the firm did opt to publish its own titles, it would stray …

Prestigious event for games dev innovators and trend-setters returns on July 9th – plus new awards including nods for music composition and talent investment