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John Broomhall talks with composer and sound designer Dom Beken

MCV has a chat with Devolver Digital co-founders Graeme Struthers and Harry Miller about the firm’s recent success stories, the evolution of its strategy and its infamous imaginary CFO This year has been ridiculously busy and ridiculously successful for Devolver Digital. Serious Sam VR titles, Strafe, Gorn, Absolver, Ruiner, The …

In this series of articles from Sumo Digital, the UK studio opens its doors to show us what they do and how you can get involved

New hires across the business strengthens the award winning studio’s development prowess

Crytek last night launched a legal attack against Star Citizen developer CIG, and its parent company RSI, which is helmed by Chris Roberts. Saying the company ‘utterly failed to follow through on those promises.’ in reference to multiple alleged complaints. The dcoument is lengthy and detailed, including alleged breach of …

Tomb Raider studio releases anniversary video discussing past, present and future.

In an interview with the BBC, Brendan Greene claimed that elements of battle royale juggernaut PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds have been ripped off by other titles. Greene says in the interview:  "I want other developers to put their own spin on the genre… not just lift things from our game." Greene claims …

Crytek alleges Star Citizen developer has been very naughty

The UK Gambling Committee’s end of year report on Young People and Gambling has suggested that 45 per cent of kids between the ages of 11-16 know about skin gambling, while 11 per cent say they’ve placed bets with in-game items. Skin gambling is a catch-all term to describe several …

Loot boxes, eh? Who'd have 'em? Jem Alexander reminisces back to a time when everything the light touched was a loot box. And he turned out alright in the end. Mostly.