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Interactive design school Hyper Island is opening the doors to prospective students on Thursday, March 8th between 17:30 and 19:00. Anyone interested in their programmes and wanting to know more, plus the opportunity meet students and staff on site (and of course happens to be in Stockholm on March 8th) …
Read More »The €1 million dev contest
Develop talks with Computec about its lucrative annual Make the Game competition
Read More »GTA uncovered in new behind-the-scenes book
'Jacked' author promises to 'lift the veil of secrecy' at Rockstar; Develop to publish two-page excerpt in April
Read More »Scotland ’emerging as important global dev hub’
UK's northerly games industry hot spot to demonstrate show of force at GDC
Read More »Western devs drafted in to save Last Guardian
Sony has sent in its Western studios to help tackle the troubled development of Team Ico’s The Last Guardian, Sony’s game design chief has revealed. In an interview withWired, Shuhei Yoshida said that Sony Santa Monica and other teams in the US and Europe have been brought in to support …
Read More »Microsoft unconvinced by third-party Flight content
Allowing third parties to build content for MS Flight would create a ‘confusing mess’ for new customers, Microsoft said. Flight sim specialists told MCV last month that Microsoft needs to let them create content for its new PC free-to-play game MS Flight. Firms such as Just Flight and First Class …
Read More »Key release: WebAnimate
Develop looks at Ikinema's WebAnimate middleware
Read More »Last Guardian devs facing "very difficult challenge"
Shuhei Yoshida has admitted that the development team working on delayed PS3 exclusive The Last Guardian is facing some very difficult challenges”. The game is the creation of Fumito Ueda, who infamously stepped down from Sony last year, though he remains employed s a developer on a contracted basis. The …
Read More »Make The Game winner launches first game
Reborn Horizon, the title created for last year’s Make The Game competition by Computec, is now available. European media firm Computec called for developers to create new social and browser games last year, offering the best studio a publishing contract and marketing budget worth one million Euros. The company has …
Read More »Minecraft’s Notch offers to fund Psychonauts 2 development
Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson is prepared to personally fund development of a sequel to Double Fine’s critically acclaimed title Psychonauts. Double Fine creative director Tim Schafer recently claimed the studio has been unable to secure a publishing contract for the Psychonauts 2 project, despite pitching to various companies. But …
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