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CG and animation experts hoping to increase talent pool with second office

The upcoming high-end GeForce GTX 780 will likely retail for around 500 in the UK when it launches next month. The new graphics card is based on Nvidia’s premium Titan GPU, which is currently available for between 800-1,000. It won’t match the Titan’s specs, however, leaving the mammoth graphics powerhouse …

Daniel Loeb calls for company to spin off part of its entertainment division

Consumers now have two ways to help fund the ‘spiritual successor’ to cult GameCube title Eternal Darkness. The controversial project went live with its own crowdfunding platform last week. It was subsequently revealed that Precursor Studios’ T&Cs allowed them to spend all ‘donations’ on whatever they liked with no legal …

Precursor Games looking for another $1.35 million to fund new psychological horror

For a brief, brief moment this was the most exciting thing we’d seen all year. And even after Sony confirmed to Kotaku that it’s a fake, this PlayStation 4 reveal video is a hint of the excitement that awaits at E3 next month. The 44-second video is certainly slick but …

Increased costs and diminishing returns – for many that was the story of this generation. And it’s not something that Take-Two wants to repeat. Chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick has told investors that he wants his publisher to be the most efficient in the business as the industry prepares to …

Steve Parker details Side's recent audio work on Crysis 3 and what you can learn from it

Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two has reported a drop in losses for the year ending March 2013. Total net losses for the period reached $31.2m, significantly down on last year’s $107.7m loss. Revenues climbed from $825.8m in 2012 to $1.21bn. For the fourth quarter revenues doubled from $148.1m to $300m. …

YoYo Games' development platform now supports mobile Linux OS