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Back in February Green Man Gaming was helping independent developers. The online retailer was offering the studios a route to market, uploading their games to its store and promoting them to its PlayFire community. But now Green Man Gaming is fully committing to publishing games, opening a dedicated digital-only arm …
Read More »Fierce Kaiju’s game-changing ambitions
We speak to the new studio from ex-Rockstar Leeds and Blast Furnace developers
Read More »20 Years of Tantalus
One of Australia's oldest studios, Tantalus, is turning 20 this year, and will have a booth at PAX Aus to celebrate
Read More »The details in the folds of Assassin’s Creed: Unity
Ubisoft isn't quite willing to leave the current generation behind this year, but it's not letting it constrain Assasin's Creed: Unity either.
Read More »Inside Ubisoft’s gamer charm offensive
The last time we spoke to Ubisoft we discussed how the firm has come in for a fair bit of flack in recent months. Whether it was for its support (or lack of) for PC gamers, or the fact Watch Dogs didn’t quite change the world like everyone thought it …
Read More »Marcus Smith is going to blow us all away
Develop sat down with the Creative Director of Insomniac Games at EB Expo to talk about the creative process behind what the studio is most known for: its weapons.
Read More »Mouldy Toof’s break for success
The Escapists' creator Chris Davis tells Develop about the rise of his prison break adventure, which won a UKIE award at Gamescom and almost stole the Microsoft conference
Read More »Can World of Warships fare better than World of Warplanes?
Last year, online games giant Wargaming finally launched its World of Tanks follow-up – World of Warplanes – to disappointing results. Now in 2014, it believes it can bounce back with its first foray onto mobile and the impending launch of World of Warships. Christopher Dring speaks to CEO Victor …
Read More »Devolve or die
There were so many announcements during PlayStation’s E3 2014 media briefing that it’s hard to remember them all. One that was unexpected – but perhaps not entirely unsurprising – was a sizzle reel trailer for a number of indie games by publisher Devolver Digital. Sony has been very active within …
Read More »Nordic Games on publishing big IP for less
It’s been a good few years for Nordic Games Group. In 2012 it purchased the Scandanavian branch of troubled retail brand GAME, and it started 2013 by buying a slew of high-profile IP from now-defunct publisher THQ. This included some big IP, such as Darksiders, Red Faction and the MX …
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