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The current-gen might be approaching the final straight, but Sony is ready for a sprint finish. Consensus dictates that Sony has lost” the current generation of machines. Wii sold in sufficiently high numbers that despite the fact it has been dead in the water for over a year, it will …

'People are moving to the mobile space, and related to that is shifting things to the cloud'

Its open nature and the reach of Steam make PC the ideal place for fledgling devs

Co-founder Paul Taylor on how the indie game became a red-hot success

The handheld video games market is being killed off by the smartphone sector, metrics firm Flurry Analytics believes. It claims that in 2009 the iOS and Android games software market accounted for 19 per cent of the total $2.7bn handheld and mobile games market in the US. In 2001 it …

Virtual reality firm Oculus has appointed Gaikai’s former chief product officer Brendan Iribe as its CEO. Iribe is also the founder of UI tools company Scaleform – the fellow co-founder of which, Michael Antonov, has been appointed as Oculus’ chief software architect. Jack McCaulry, who was a lead developer on …

Industry vet Don Daglow believes Americans have trouble dealing with failure, specifically in regards to gaming. "The idea of failure has been dramatically reduced," he said during a panel at GDC Europe, noting that American students don’t ‘fail,’ but are instead ‘challenged.’ Daglow explains this concept comes from an education …

Former Empire: Total War designer Jan van der Crabben warns free-to-play developers to expect a 70 per cent drop in initial registered users. Crabben, speaking during a keynote at GDC Europe, emphasized that player retention is key for free-to-play titles to find any kind of success. Crabben went on to …

Mobile developer Perblue has revealed staggering financial figures for their free-to-play MMO Parallel Kingdom, also declaring that Android is currently outpacing iOS in nearly every way. Perblue’s CEO Justin Beck spoke at GDC Europe on how his Madison studio of nine staff members started with just $20,000 in savings. In …