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Qualifying Kindle Fire apps to receive promotional boost through 500,000 free mobile ad impressions

Part of Ken Kutaragi’s vision of the PS3 was for the console to ship without a dedicated graphics processor, with the now infamous Cell chip handling ALL the processing. The intention, IGN reports, was for PS3 to arrive alongside Xbox 360 in 2005. However, Kutarai and his team were eventually …

New initiative launching in 2015 designed to close tech skills gap and encourage children to pick up programming in schools

Develop meets the team on the frontier of wearable computing

There’s little doubt that Grand Theft Auto 5 will eventually arrive on PC, like most Rockstar games, but it hasn’t stopped one Intel executive from floating a conspiracy theory to explain the lack of a simultaneous PC release. Somebody paid a lot of money to make sure that title was …

The creative director of Ubisoft’s upcoming Watch Dogs reckons the Wii U version will be graphically superior to its current-gen counterparts. "I would say the Wii U version is pretty much in between what the current gen is and what the next gen is from a version standpoint," Jonathan Morin …

UK dev sector’s largest regional body enters its second decade

Everyone and their dog seems to think that GTA V is heading to PC, but theories as to why it’s not yet happened are pretty varied. Perhaps the most colourful has come from Intel notebook marketing director Chris Silva who made the following forum-worthy claim to PC Gamer. Somebody paid …

Next Android microconsole boasts middleweight specs and price

Magnus "Gordon" Gardebck, co-founder of Swedish indie studio Simogo, will speak at this year’s NASSCOM Game Developers Conference, the trade body has announced. Simogo is the studio behind successful mobile titles such as the atmospheric and contemplative Year Walk, and rhythmn-stealth mash-up Beat Sneak Bandit. Later this year, the studio …