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Sean Cleaver speaks to Auro Technologies' Iwan De Kuijper about their 3D audio technology and it's use in The Farm 51's Get Even

The network of games professionals grows with over 100 new members for 2017

The Kiev Major, Valve’s second big tournament of the season has started, and you can currently watch it live, if you’re into that. It’s starting slow: the first two days are the qualifiers for the Swiss group, which will work to determine the main event brackets for when that gets …

The digital media landscape is seemingly cosmic in size and complexity, and so very tricky for us to picture in its entirety. But if I were to scale it down to something that could be analogised more clearly, it reminds me very much of Minecraft. An open-world, sandbox environment in …

The French company looks to take advantage of their IPs and tailor games to the Chinese market

Fans of the cult Spectrum computer now have another crowdfunding option to turn to. After the problems that beset previous efforts such as the Spectrum ZX Vega+ and Recreated ZX Spectrum, a new contender – the Spectrum Next – has now been successfully funded. The project has just passed its …

Picking your next employee is almost as important to as committing to your next game concept. Developers large and small share their insights into hiring the right people for the right jobs

For a console that’s had the biggest hardware launch in Nintendo’s history across Europe, the US and Australia, the platform holder has been surprisingly coy about releasing concrete sales data for its recently released Switch.  For both the Wii and Wii U, Nintendo released first week sales for its new …

Berlin and Bordeaux open their doors for assisting in AAA game development

Another week, another clash regarding the ownership of multiple teams in esports contests. This week, ESL has taken a tough stance, banning academy teams from competing in its events. This has meant that the several academy teams registered for European qualifiers this weekend for ESL One Cologne are no longer …