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The Steam Early Access release of indie darling Terraria’s spiritual successor Starbound has vaulted to the top of Valve’s latest weekly top sellers chart. A host of past chart-toppers finish behind the highly-anticipated indie game, including Civlization V – which clocks in twice with its Brave New World expansion in …

New particle-based brush tool can be used for both 2D and 3D texturing

We chat with Gamelogic on why it decided to create so many small game prototypes in a month, and what its tool has to offer developers

We take a look at five key vacancies across the UK and Europe

Steffen Kabbelgaard guides us through the Forced developer’s incredible three-year journey to make a game

Government monitoring of internet data presents an advanced persistent threat” according to a new pro-consumer blog from Microsoft. Many of our customers have serious concerns about government surveillance of the internet,” Microsoft’s general counsel and executive VP of legal and corporate affairs Brad Smith wrote. We share their concerns. That’s …

In this week’s issue of MCV, we talk to Sony CEO Andrew House about the PS4 and why it’s taken an early victory in the next-gen war against Xbox One. House also details the lofty expectations for the new console, forecasting the PS4 to beat lifetime sales and 80 million …

Ambiera, a small Viennan company founded six years ago by CEO Nikolaus Gebhardt, was set up to help bring essential assets in reach of development studios. It provides software libraries, tools and knowledge for developers, and has had a hand in hundreds of games since its foundation. Flagship product CopperCube …

New Sensible Software biography also up for grabs

Free extract from Sensible Software: 1986 – 1999, the UK development legend's new biography