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Ready to lay down another few quid on an in-development title? Bugbear’s Next Car Game is the latest title to join the likes of DayZ, Rust, Starbound, 7 Days To Die, Project Zomboid, Wasteland 2, Nether and Prison Architect in releasing on Steam’s Early Access service. For 18.99 buyers get …

No reason given for closure; dev says studio shut down 'in the blink of an eye'

There was a time when finishing a game before you released it was considered a prerequisite. Of course, in this modern era of crowdfunding it’s quite common to charge for a game before you’ve even started making it. But the latest ‘thing’ seems to be making a bit of a …

And then the industry realised that there’s a ton of money to be made by releasing unfinished games. The colossal success of DayZ, Rust and many others on Steam Early Access has caught the attention of traditional publishing, with Ubisoft announcing plans to release Ghost Recon Online on the service. …

Single-player mode still in alpha phase as studio continues rewriting code

Like-for-like sales at the UK’s leading video games retailer GAME grew 90 per cent year-on-year for the six weeks ending January 4th. Total sales jumped 83 per cent with online sales rocketing by 213 per cent. This strong overall performance for our second peak trading period was driven by our …

It has taken over half a year to successfully take SimCity offline, Maxis has claimed. The studio on Monday confirmed plans to finally introduce an offline mode to the game. Much of the reaction to the news in the games press focused on previous claims from the studio that such …

Analytics firm gets capital injection fresh from merger with monetisation company PlayHaven

Project already due out on iOS, Android gets $178k for PC and Windows Tablet port