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Paul Lipson, music and audio director for Microsoft Studios, discusses making music for Xbox and its first-party games

The parent company of distributor Gem has rebranded itself and its subsidiaries. DCC SerCom will now be known as Exertis and as a result Gem has been rebranded as Exertis Gem. Taken as a whole Exertis now partners with 350 technology brands, employs over 1,600 people and supplies 14,000 resellers, …

Mobile hits now available from casual games giant's home computer download store

Some early in-engine footage of crowdfunding mega-success Star Citizen suggests that the game is going to be a graphical treat. The game recently hit $24m raised – money that is clearly helping creator Chris Roberts push the graphical envelope. The video is available in 4K resolution for those with the …

Free mobile devkit now offers UI tools

Both models have new 64-bit A7 chip, retina display

Most of InterWave team laid off after failed Kickstarter

Respawn Entertainment’s highly anticipated mecha FPS Titanfall will launch in US and Europe next March on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC. The studio announced the release window news on the game’s official site, stating that the game will land in North America on March 11th and in Europe on …

Sony has added new PlayStation 4 titles under the pre-order category of the PSN store. The Playstation US Blog reveals downloadable versions of Call of Duty: Ghosts, Battlefield 4, Assassin’s Creed IV and Killzone Shadow Fall are now available to reserve through PlayStation’s digital storefront. Pre-orders for the limited Gold …

Apple has unveiled the iPad Air, a redesigned full-size tablet launching worldwide on November 1st. The firm showcased the device at an event this week, where it also announced a new iPad Mini with retina display and new Mac OSX hardware. The iPad Air holds the same display of 9.7 …