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Rockstar North has revealed a team of 1,000+ developers worked on Grand Theft Auto V. In an interview with sister-site Develop, studio president Leslie Benzies confirmed the monster team that worked on what has since become the fastest selling game in UK history. "It’s probably more, much more," said Benzies. …

For the first time in the history of Ofcom’s Children and Parents Media Use and Attitudes Report a decline in UK console ownership has been discovered. The latest edition of the Report says that 87 per cent of children live in a household with a fixed or portable games console …

Studio director Andy Semple and president Leslie Benzies take us through how the developer operates

The GallantCloud Games team chronicles their journey through the Microsoft Venture accelerator

The ‘leaked’ specs for the PC versions of Watch Dogs that appeared online yesterday were not official, one of the game’s developers has stated. These are not official configs,” graphics technical director Sebastien Viard said on Twitter. The real specs out soon and will be lower than [these] ones.” Much …

Two weeks after the game was released in the UK owners of PES 2014 on Xbox 360 are still unable to access the game’s multiplayer modes. Users are presented with the error message ‘Download File is Broken’ when trying to install the required day one Data Pack. Konami promises that …

Studio still open, but no longer developing games after Imperium: Galactic War discontinued

Publisher reported to be set to lay off 50% of workforce

Former head of mobile at online gambling company steps in at Minecraft developer

Terraria creator Andrew Spinks has openly discussed plans for a direct sequel to Re-Logic’s hit indie RPG. While Terraria 2 will maintain those certain established mechanics that made the first so popular, some exciting new design possibilities have come about – including more biome diversity and infinite worlds. [The game …