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"I've been in the industry for 12 years and I would say that for five or six years, our leadership has made not crunching a priority.

Nintendo is working with PC giant Nvidia to bring a range of Wii and GameCube games to the Nvidia Shield handheld. The catch, however, is that the game are unlikely to ever officially appear outside of China. Analyst Daniel Ahmad reports that the Shield will feature official ports of titles …

"We're just at the end of the (VR) novelty phase,"

In the last ever issue of Develop we speak to CCP CEO Hilmar Pétursson about how developing for an online community can be more like urban planning than game design, and take a deep look at the state of the current jobs market

Jason Kingsley responds to recent controversy around the future of single-player games

The online arm of UK tabloid The Daily Mail has published a scathing article targeted at upcoming PS4 game Detroit: Become Human. The game’s trailer shown off at Paris Games Week in October has already provoked plenty of debate, but the paper has – as you would expect – doused …

Hi-Rez Studios is scrapping the in-game currency found in Paladins and is replacing it with a loot box system. The Cards Unbound system works as you might expect, although it differs from some others in that it allows players to level up their cards by obtaining duplicates. The number of …

Oculus Rift owners were temporarily left out in the cold following last week’s launch of Doom VFR. The VR shooter was only ever pitched as being for HTC Vive and PlayStation VR, but with so much cross-compatibility in modern VR, Rift owners fancied their chances. As it happened, however, the …

Four years after it was first released on PC, developer Bohemia Interactive has said that DayZ will exit beta and arrive on Xbox… next year. “Being candid is the core of the relationship we have as a studio with you, our community. That includes openly talking about things that we …

Super Mario Run and CATS: Crash Arena Turbo Stars win big