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Aardvark Swift’s Joseph Relton speaks to Women in Games’ Marie-Claire Isaaman about gender imbalance from esports to education
Read More »Interview: Women in Games’ Marie-Claire Isaaman on Gender Imbalance
nDreams and Climax on how to build a successful VR business
With vast sums of money being poured into VR around the world, the virtual reality development scene has never been healthier. In a recent GDC survey, for instance, there were more developers making games for VR (24 per cent) than there were for the Xbox One and Project Scorpio (22 …
Read More »How Paw Print Games is using VR to bring a classic arcade genre back from the dead
Almost a year ago today, VR specialists nDreams announced it was to become a publisher of third-party virtual reality games, the first of which was an untitled project from the Chester-based Paw Print Games. Now we know exactly what they’ve been working on. Entitled Bloody Zombies, this 2D side-scrolling co-op …
Read More »Virtual reality check: Oculus, HTC and Sony’s verdict on the future and first year of VR
To say VR had an eventful first year would be an understatement. Not only do we have three major headsets on shelves, contributing to almost $1bn (£774m) worth of sales around the world, but we also have virtual reality films appearing at Sundance, VR surgical procedures, and HTC has even …
Read More »Civilization VI – Civilized Quality
Following the release of Civilization VI, Sean Cleaver sat down with Sarah Darney, associate producer at Firaxis, to talk about how her background in QA has been essential for her role on the game
Read More »The Videogame History Foundation: Save and Continue
Why are a group of industry experts trying to digitise the very history of video games? Frank Cifaldi, founder of The Video Game History Foundation, details a wildly ambitious project to Will Freeman
Read More »Amazon: A year in the Lumberyard
Sean Cleaver catches up with Amazon Games Services vice president, Mike Frazzini, to see how the Amazon Lumberyard engine and the company’s gaming focus has come on in the past year
Read More »Team17: Crossing the pond
Team17’s expansion into the US marks a milestone in the company’s growth and benefits everyone from the publisher itself to the developers it represents globally. Jem Alexander finds out how
Read More »Ron Gilbert: Everyone’s a Writer
Ron Gilbert’s new adventure, Thimbleweed Park, aims to recapture the charm of old school point and click adventures using ‘improv game design’.
Read More »Everything you need to know about the Esports Integrity Coalition
The Esports Integrity Coalition was formed last year with the intention of making sure eSports competitions remain fair and regulated. Since then it has entered multiple partnerships with many eSports companies, along with a lot of betting companies to ensure that issues such as match fixing and doping are eliminated …
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