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Chinese giant Tencent continues to show its interest in western companies, this time by investing in Planet Coaster and Elite Dangerous studio Frontier Developments. Tencent has announced the acquisition of a 9 per cent stake in Frontier, which represents a 17.7m investment. For the Cambridge-based studio, this move will facilitate …

Tencent are now the second biggest shareholder of the Cambridge-based studio

Audio is a very specialised area of the games industry. Some designers have been doing it for decades. So how did they get their jobs, and what do they look for when hiring new audio designers? Sean Cleaver asks UK studios and outsourcers for their advice and experiences

The audio team at Frontier talk Develop through the recording and the mixing of the rollercoaster construction game

Developers didn’t expect NPCs to create super weapons

When 2013’s SimCity came out, it was broken. It didn’t work. The servers fell over and the critics and fans did what they do when a game doesn’t work: they crucified it. Even when the game did get up-and-running, eventually, there were a few dissatisfied customers. The game’s developer had …

Creative director Jonny Watts says that from now on, the Elite developer is only making games ‘for itself’

Half-year revenue up to £10.9 million as company moved to self-publishing model

Elite: Dangerous is heading for full release on Xbox One next month, developer Frontier has announced. In an AMA post on Reddit, studio CEO David Braben revealed the space sim will depart the console’s Xbox Game Preview Program for official release on October 6th. Braben added that Ships and modules …

Horizons introduces the ability to explore planet surfaces