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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 …

Tryst, the upcoming competitive RTS game from Hyderabad-based BlueGiant Interactive, is now up for preorder on Steam. Those who preorder Tryst on Steam will get a 20% discount on the game’s $24.99 price. You can also preorder the Tryst Premium Edition, which includes the game plus all its future DLC …

Crysis 3 tech video demos the engine behind FPS franchise's latest

Brendan Iribe takes charge of virtual reality start-up

Gamescom: PS3 titles Rain, Puppeteer and Until Dawn prove SCE commitment to original titles

Vita may have been about the big brands at Gamescom this week, but PS3 was almost the exact opposite – with Sony announcing even more new IP during its press conference. Joining the already announced new IP of Beyond, Last of Us and Wonderbook were there new games from Sony’s …