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Develop has selected gifted programmers, entrepreneurial leaders and indie stars for this year’s round-up of the best and the brightest young game development talent

Thatgamecompany’s debut PlayStation title Flow is now available to PS4 owners. The game first arrived alongside PS3 in April 2006. This new PS4 version is largely the same, albeit with next-gen 1080p/60fps visuals. Like Thatgamecompany’s second title Flower (which was available on PS4 at launch) the game is free to …

Devs praise what tools offer, but question use in education

Exclusive interview with the Clash of Clans creator, 30 Under 30, the best next-gen tools and lots more – Christmas just came early

Reloaded Productions teams up with fellow Scottish dev Blazing Griffin for iOS spin-off

Home to some of the UK’s longest-serving industry veterans, Develop finds out how local firms and developer network Game Republic are keen to improve the area's prospects in games

80 million consoles sold may sound like a huge number to Xbox, but to PlayStation it is just not good enough. Xbox 360 and PS3 have both sold 80m worldwide so far. But for Sony that’s a disappointing figure having come off the back of PS2, which went on to …

Sony is facing criticism over its implementation of microtransactions in Gran Turismo 6. Their inclusion was confirmed last month but the prices were only revealed yesterday and are, according to Eurogamer, as follows: 500,000 in-game credits – 3.99/€4.991m in-game credits – 7.99/€9.992.5m in-game credits – 15.99/€19.997m in-game credits – 39.99/€49.99 …

Administrators Moorfields Corporate Recovery has confirmed that another 62 Blockbuster stores are to close. This means another 427 workers will lose their jobs, although Moorfields has finally admitted – as revealed by MCV last month – that it expects the company to close in the near future. Add this to …

Valve has joined non-profit group The Linux Foundation as part of its ongoing investment into the budding OS as a gaming platform. "Joining the Linux Foundation is one of many ways Valve is investing in the advancement of Linux gaming," Valve’s Mike Sartain said. "Through these efforts we hope to …