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Iran has become the first country to issue a nation-wide ban on Pokmon Go, after it was ruled that the popular app presents a ‘security’ risk. As reported by theBBC, the High Council of Virtual Spaces government body, which controls activity and content permitted online, decided to completely outlaw Niantic’s …
Read More »Nuclear Throne dev Vlambeer to release game design history book
120 Years of Vlambeer and Friends documents studio’s entire output, including art, interviews and analysis
Read More »Bossa’s Worlds Adrift backed by $1.35m investment
UK firm London Venture Partners, which previously supported Supercell and Playfish, adds funding to ambitious MMO
Read More »Life After Lionhead: Former members of the closed Fable studio, four months on
In April, one of the UK’s most iconic developers closed its doors for the last time. After almost 20 years and the creation of beloved series including Fable, Black & White and The Movies, Lionhead was no more. Four months on, we catch up with some of the studio's ex-employees
Read More »Valve will now stop banned players from trading games on Steam
Update to Valve Anti-Cheat and Game Ban system means that cheating users will no longer be able to dodge bans by gifting titles to new accounts
Read More »Iran bans Pokémon Go over security concerns
Government body High Council of Virtual Spaces rules to outlaw app, with suggestions that a fatwa applies to the monster-catching possibly playing a part
Read More »Valve to double office space in upcoming studio move
Dota 2 dev and Steam owner will occupy nine floors of Lincoln Square tower, to a total of 225,000 square feet
Read More »HTC opens dev applications for worldwide Viveport VR marketplace beta
Storefront for virtual reality experiences aimed at Vive owners ‘who don’t use Steam’
Read More »Buzz creator Relentless to close after 13 years
All staff made redundant at developer, which opened a studio in Wales earlier this year
Read More »Valve offers its SteamVR tracking tech to other devs
Third-party developers will soon be able to make use of SteamVR’s tracking abilities in their own virtual reality hardware, opening the doors for custom controllers for VR titles. Valve has announced that it will offer royalty-free licences for the platform to hardware makers who complete an in-person training course. The …
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