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Tomas Rawlings of Auroch Digital on gamifying Jack the Ripper 125 years after Mary Jane Kelly was murdered, her badly mutilated body found by a rent collector seeking her arrears on the morning of November 9, 1888…

The Xbox One’s Kinect-controlled UI is the focus of a new video from Microsoft. It starts with the assertion that the clip was recorded on November 1st using live Xbox One code – thereby disproving the unfounded rumours recently doing the rounds claiming that Microsoft was struggling with the console’s …

EA is certainly keen to press home the advantages that its next-gen version of FIFA 14 will offer. Although it has been explained before, the below video is another chance to look at both the extra animations the PS4 and Xbox One versions will offer, as well as the more …

Optimisation tool leaves beta

Over the last 12 months, Sports Interactive has defied the pirates, released its most successful game and turned its Football Manager series into a full sports brand. Christopher Dring speaks with studio boss Miles Jacobson about his hit IP and what we can expect from his talk at London Games …

Sources claim Former Nokia boss wants to refocus business on Office

ARM’s developer community manager Gemma Paris talks about educating developers in making games for mobile. ARM is not only a creator of innovative multimedia IP; its very business model is an innovative creation. ARM encourages openness along the full length of the supply chain in order to deliver high-performing products …

Testronic Labs’ functionality and compliace QA boss Erik Hittenhausen teases his London Games Conference talk. From its inception, the games industry has evolved significantly from simple pixelated figures on blank backgrounds to a vast array of game types played across disparate mediums. Realistic POV gaming to MMOs to social gaming. …

Ubisoft commissioned UK composers to create separate score for blockbuster's online more