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Just one day after it was announced Avatar 2 is going into production, Ubisoft has revealed that it’s made a deal with Fox Interactive and James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment to create a ‘cutting edge’ game based inthe Avatar universe. Massive Entertainment has been handed development duties, which are presumably well …

Encouraging next generation of designers to get involved with the industry early

Not every developer is happy with Amazon's record on indie developers

The Nintendo Switch is a platform of many firsts, but it will also be the first time Nippon Ichi Software’s Disgaea series has arrived on one of Nintendo’s home consoles.  The very first title in the strategy RPG franchise, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, arrived on the Nintendo DS back in …

Showing new headset at GDC 2017

The Nintendo Switch is ready to take retail by storm, with the help of a wealth of accessories and tie-in items. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild alone has enough merchandise to fill the shelves of every UK retailers, but with third-party publishers on board as well, it …

It’s 12 months since Testronic’s COO Keith Ramsdale joined the business. Here he looks back on some significant changes made to the leading QA & Localization specialist…

A project designed to preserve the history and culture of the games industry is now live. The Video Games History Foundation is headed up by former games journalist and developer Frank Cifaldi. We’re non-profit corporation dedicated to figuring out how to save as much video game history as we can, …

It looks like CCP’s Gunjack might be the best-selling VR title to date. Speaking to Games Industry, CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Ptursson said that the space shooter has so far sold over half a million copies. I think [this] is a record,” he added. I’m certainly gonna claim it until …

The HTC Vive is no longer the only VR headset designed to support Valve’s OpenVR platform. Road to VR reports that rival hardware manufacturer LG is also working on a device that will utilize both OpenVR and SteamVR Tracking. Valve’s OpenVR standard was always designed to create a level playing …