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Ubisoft Annecy is the latest studio to collaborate on the publisher’s upcoming open-world shooter Tom Clancy’s The Division. The developer has previously worked on the multiplayer for Assassin’s Creed III and Black Flag. It now joins Massive Entertainment, Reflections and Red Storm in making The Division. Annecy’s exact role on …
Read More »Spark Unlimited quits game development
Lost Planet 3 studio Spark Unlimited has laid off employees and abandoned game development. A former employee confirmed the closure to Polygon after some of the company’s assets were spotted as being up for sale on NeoGaf. Spark’s chief technical officer John Butrovich said that it’s the end of Spark …
Read More »Ripstone and Fireproof are the latest firms on the hunt for new games at Interface
Two more companies are on board for our new games industry event Interface, where they will be seeking potential new partnerships with games developers. Ripstone and Fireproof Games join the likes of 505 Games, Rising Star, Curve Digital, Tilting Point and Green Man Loaded, who will all be on the …
Read More »Finalists for Develop Awards 2015 revealed
The finalists for the 2015 Develop Industry Excellence Awards have been selected, with close to 140 companies competing for glory at this year’s event. 2015 has been one of the strongest years for submissions, with more than 250 companies nominated, but sadly not everyone can make the shortlist. There are …
Read More »£14m is being spent on the UK’s first tax break games
The BFI has released figures for the first full year of UK games tax relief, reporting a UK spend of 14m towards the production of approved titles. That’s just shy of the 15m that was budgeted for tax breaks between April 2014 and March 2015. Tax breaks for UK games …
Read More »Borderlands: Pre-Sequel dev 2K Australia closed down
Australia has seemingly lost its last triple-A games developer. A source has toldKotaku Australiathat 2K Australia, the company’s studio in Canberra, is closing and all staff are out of work. "We can confirm we have taken steps to begin the studio closure process for 2K Australia in order to better …
Read More »Ubisoft working on further Child of Light games
Ubisoft has hinted that more releases set in the Child of Light universe are on the way. Taking to Twitter, the creative director of last year’s UbiArt Frameworks RPG title, Patrick Plourde, said that more projects set in the same universe are in development. Note, projects. Plourde and Ubisoft is …
Read More »Capitalism is killing games (and the world), Oddworld creator says
The need for growth that fundamentally underpins capitalist business structure is killing the development sector. That’s according to Oddworld founder Lorne Lanning, who told Games Industry that the big successes of the highest grossing triple-A titles is shaping the decision making of publishers throughout the entire production train. "I’d say …
Read More »Deep Down development has been "one step forwards, two steps back"
Capcom has admitted that development of its free-to-play online next-gen dungeon crawler Deep Down has been hard going. We’re still facing a ton of challenges. For starters, there’s the whole process of developing games for the newest next-generation consoles,” Capcom’s senior manager of consumer games development Teruki Miyashita said. Every …
Read More »‘Bad coding leaves developers patching up damaged reputations’
A new Government-funded organisation has been set-up to help developers stamp out bugs and online issues in their games. Tony Dyhouse, director of the Trustworthy Software Initiative, explains Is the pressure on developers to rush new games to market causing more to be released before they are truly ready? Recent …
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