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The lead system architect on the PS4 and Knack director Mark Cerny will deliver the conference keynote at this year’s Develop in Brighton. The talk, called Changing the game: Developing into the next generation, will look at the making of the PS4, the lessons learnt from previous console generations, the …
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PS4 system architect Mark Cerny to keynote Develop in Brighton
Industry veteran to discuss creating the PS4 and why indies are key to the console's future
Read More »PlayStation Store kicks off festive sale
Several games and DLC are now on sale as part of the PlayStation Store’s festive sale. Games available on discount include 007 Legends, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, The Amazing Spider-Man, F1 Race Stars and Prototype 2. DLC for Sleeping Dogs is also on sale. PlayStation Plus subscribers receive additional …
Read More »Luminous engine – The nirvana of next-gen games creation?
Develop investigates Square Enix's impressive new development platform
Read More »UK CHARTS: Three weeks at the top for FIFA Street
EA’s FIFA Street has claimed No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 for the third week on the trot. It does so despite a week-on-week fall of sales of 44 per cent. As well as climbing No.2 with Mass Effect 3, EA also claims third place in …
Read More »UK CHARTS: November 2011
At last, UK games retail has reason to cheer following a strong month of sales. But November wasn’t all about Call of Duty:?Modern Warfare 3 and Assassin’s Creed:?Revelations. Back in?2009, terrified publishers ran away from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, delaying their games into 2010. This year, Activision’s competition …
Read More »Real World Blues
Atomhawk Design director Cumron Ashtiani assesses the strengths and weaknesses of stylised graphics
Read More »The longer console cycle
In the middle of last year, Microsoft’s game software boss Phil Spencer offered a telling quote about the direction of the games industry to MCV. It wasn’t about motion controllers or new online services – it was about the market forces that are allowing those things to appear: Do we …
Read More »Global Video Game Market Analysis – 2009
According to recent findings from Top Global Markets, an integrated monthly report from leading providers of consumer and retail information in the video games industry, The NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track Limited and Enterbrain, Inc., combined video game software unit sales across the world’s three largest games markets experienced a decline …
Read More »Licence to sell
From Batman to The Beatles, 2009 has been a big year for video game licences – but now more publishers than ever are looking to go the other way and licence out their own IP. Christopher Dring takes a closer look… Harmonix’s The Beatles: Rock Band is the perfect example …
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