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Vitek Goyel has been a busy man. He helms successful 3D game art outsourcing company PixelTek; he’s the vice president of a truly global game development studio in Phoenix Online; and he’s also the frontman for folk/punk rock band Slow Down Clown. Phoenix Online’s first commercial release – Cognition, is …

New developer partners with major platform holder

Start-up accelerator halts funding due to rising costs and high barriers to entry

Irrational Games and 2K Games had been very quiet on Bioshock Infinite over the last few months, leading many to speculate that the game would slip from its February 2013 release window. In a new trailer, however, a 26th February 2013 release date has been confirmed for the highly anticipated …

Joe Madureira leaves after seven years to work on 'the next big thing'

EA has confirmed that the Wii U version of FIFA 13 will not include all of the features seen in the Xbox 360 and PS3 releases. Chief amongst the omitted features is the popular online mode FIFA Ultimate Team. "We don’t have Ultimate Team, purely and simply because Nintendo’s online …

CEO Feargus Urquhart on crowdfunding, publishers and failed projects

Ubisoft has confirmed that production has begun on an Assassin’s Creed movie. The publisher’s Ubisoft Motion Pictures arm, which was created in 2011, has partnered with New Regency for the production and has struck an agreement that allows Ubisoft to maintain control of key elements of the movie’s creative direction”. …

The on-going legal rivalry between Samsung and Apple appears to have reached boiling point. The pair have been engaged in a string of legal patent battles across the globe, with each claiming a number of victories and defeats. Most recently Apple was ordered to publish an official apology to Samsung …

Sony has announced that the redesigned PlayStation Store is now live across Europe. The new-look digital storefront was supposed to roll out last week. And it did, for a while at least. However, a host of complaints from users including problems with account authentication and random crashes led to the …