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Double Fine’s memorable Kickstarter campaign has taught studio founder Tim Schafer that there’s nothing to fear in being open with the development of a game. Schafer told VentureBeat that despite popular belief, opening up and letting players in on the development process provides a support net for the in-progress title. …

Meteor Entertainment’s free to play mech title Hawken will enter open beta on December 12th. It will be accessible in all territories excluding China, where it is instead being published by Kong Zhong. Open beta is our chance to implement all the good feedback we’ve gotten from closed beta players …

Kickstarter, the most popular vehicle for crowdfunding games development projects, is now available in the UK. Whereas previously UK-based developers could only pledge, but not create projects, now they can seek funding on the platform. The move has be widely welcomed by UK studios of every size, who have until …

The UK video games industry charity GamesAid has named the 14 charitable organisations in the running for GamesAid support in 2012. Members are invited to vote for the charity they would like to see being officially supported. The focus is on organisations that focus on children and young adults with …

'We're continuing to evolve our policies to meet industry demand', says Adam Boyes

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An Indian games retailer hopes to have over 150 outlets in operation by 2015. Games The Shop, which currently has seven stores, also says it has the potential to expand its chain globally. India is a vast country – it has a scope for much more than 150 stores,” Games …

If market success were achieved through ambition and self-belief, then Blaze’s new machine is a guaranteed winner. After all, it takes a remarkable amount of confidence for a company announcing a new 99.99 portable games console to claim it will change the way that games are played, developed and sold”. …

Google has opened up the internet giant’s social platform Google+ to the open public after three months of ‘field trial’ testing. "Google+ is still in its infancy, of course, but we’re more excited than ever to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software," wrote Google engineering chief …

Long-term industry face and EA founder Trip Hawkins has revisited the two-decade old debate about platform holder software licensing, blaming it for the death of creativity in the modern market. I think we actually had our golden age when game development was using floppy disks and it was an open …