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An apparent US Microsoft Store ad is offering to reward consumers for abandoning their PlayStation 3. As spotted by NeoGaf, a digital flyer doing the rounds is offering gamers $100 off the price of an Xbox One when participants hand over their old PS3 console. The PS3 must be in …

It is important principles do not put UK game industry at a 'competitive disadvantage', says legal expert

Sony has claimed that PS4 is experiencing a significant sales advantage over its rival Xbox One in the UK. UK boss Fergal Gara told Eurogamer that its machine is outselling Microsoft’s by a ratio of 1.5-to-1 in the UK. That means for every two Xbox Ones sold PS4 is selling …

It was on this very day a year ago that Gameloft unceremoniously shut down its Hyderabad studio, leaving over 200 developers jobless overnight. Amid the outpouring of support from the game development community, a handful of developers saw the dire situation as the perfect opportunity to start out on their …

Book your place for your chance to steal Creative Assembly's crown

After hundreds of developers filled in our salary survey, we’ve crunched the numbers to investigate whether new platforms, business models and the rise of indies have caused havoc on earnings

While releasing a game early doesn’t always reap rewards, it certainly has for racing specialist Bugbear. The studio has announced that its Next Car Game title made over $1m in its first week of availability on Steam Early Access, aping the success of Early Access forerunners such as Day, Rust …

Steam Early Access game Akaneiro: Demon Hunters has cost creators Spicy Horse $1.7m, owner American McGee has revealed. The game successfully won $200k worth of backing on Kickstarter and has to date raised a total of $300k in revenue. However, with development costs of nearly $2m that has left the …

AMD graphics card owners are now able to play the Mantle version of Battlefield 4. To run the Mantle version users must have updated their AMD GPU driver to the 14.1 beta and be running a Radeon card with Graphics Core Next (R9 290X, R9 290, R7 260X and Kaveri …

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