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'First ever' social games for digital download, claim California companies

Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine have released a report on the impact of active video games on healthy children’s physical activity. The results show consistent engagement by study participants (children 9-12 years of age) in games such as Wii Fit Plus and EA Sports Active yield little to …

Double Fine founder Tim Schafer has provided a bit of a reality check to individuals claiming the company’s record-breaking Kickstarter effort has publishers worried. Schafer explains that while the amount raised for their adventure game Kickstarter campaign is phenomenal in crowd-funding terms, publishers have hardly batted an eye over the …

A telling job listing posted to theZeniMax careers pagehas revealed Bethesda’s interest in hiring programmers for an unannounced title on next-generation consoles. The game studio is seeking those with at least five years of experience in the field, as well as extensive work logged programming/optimizing for Xbox 360 and PS3. …

Sony is working on an issue causing Playstation Plus members to receive error codes when attempting to access their gifted, downloadable Minis on the Vita. Multiple users have reported the issue on the Playstation Europe forums, with nearly uniform descriptions from all reporting problems. "We are aware of the issue, …

Free-to-play mech game receives $10m in funding

'Future Generation' console programmers wanted

Publishers 'aren't shaken' by $2m Double Fine Kickstarter campaign

Hilleman takes wider view: Problems for any games firm puts whole sector in negative light

Filmmaking duo James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot talk to Develop about creating the emotional documentary