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Sperasoft CEO Igor Efremov reveals why the changing face of development is providing a fertile environment for studios to outsource work to other specialists
Read More »Capcom opens dedicated mobile arm, absorbs developer Beeline
Mobile Business Division will ‘aggressively’ utilise the publisher’s IP, with Monster Hunter and Mega Man spin-offs planned by early 2017
Read More »Dark Souls: The Movie, Yooka-Laylee on Sega Saturn and The Witcher’s talking horse: Devs do April Fools
We round up the (questionably) funny efforts of the development industry for 2016's April Fools' Day
Read More »Sonic Team head returns to US to establish development ‘hub’ for franchise
Producer Takashi Iizuka originally helped found Sega Studio USA in 1999
Read More »Fatshark’s Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide passes 500,000 sales
Swedish indie dev sees success on PC with licensed co-op shooter
Read More »Dwarf Fortress dev: Moving from donations to Patreon doubled our income
‘Even a few steps is enough to drive everyone away,’ Tarn Adams says of previous method of funding ambitious simulation title
Read More »Sega finalises purchase of Persona developer Atlus
Publisher to bring all of Japanese studio’s games to US from now on, but the two companies will remain separate entities
Read More »Remedy makes Quantum Break’s licensed music optional for YouTubers
Sites such as Twitch and YouTube have been criticised for blocking videos containing copyrighted songs
Read More »Unreal 4.11 brings Paragon tech, DirectX 12 on Xbox One, physics-based shading
Threading architecture improvements, cloth simulation, quicker garbage collection and animation tweaks among optimisations on show in upcoming PC and PS4 MOBA
Read More »Unity, Red Hat and JetBrains join open-source advocate .NET Foundation
Engine firm plans future improvements to IL2CPP .NET runtime, native Visual Studio integration, C# 6 support and mono runtime and class libraries in future updates
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