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As the latest Marvel blockbuster explodes onto screens, Jem Alexander contemplates the first episode of Telltale’s Guardians of the Galaxy and the importance of Marvel making a strong return to games
Read More »Opinion: “I Am Groot”
Opinion – In the zone: lessons from VR
Rebellion’s CEO and co-founder Jason Kingsley details what we’re still learning about VR. Doing VR for Battlezone, we learnt a lot of things – some things we were doing right, but mainly things we were doing wrong. And, surprisingly, a lot of that fed back into the knowledge I picked …
Read More »Opinion: The rush for new IPs
As publishers start to put successful franchises on hiatus, Sean Cleaver asks if this is now a new rush for new IPs
Read More »Opinion: No escape from out-of-home VR
Develop’s editor Jem Alexander discusses the out-of-home VR market and how escape rooms are delving into digital. Escape rooms are exploding all over London. The rooms themselves aren’t literally exploding, of course, but I’ve noticed frankly ridiculous growth in the market in cities all over the world. It seems that …
Read More »The National Videogame Arcade – Culture? Shock!
The National Videogame Arcade’s Iain Simons talks about why the divide between video games and art culture might be smaller than everyone thinks ?
Read More »What to do when your players boycott you
Michael Fedor of Pocket Gems recalls what happened when a group of players issued an ultimatum over War Dragons
Read More »Opinion: friends are influencers too, says IGN’s Dan Kilby
Last week on the way to work I overheard two guys talking and the conversation was going something like this: …and he keeps going on about how great this Horizon Zero Dawn game is, but I’m not sure whether to buy it or not.” At which point I butted in …
Read More »Opinion: The Nostalgic Spring
This season sees the release of many games with names we know and love, but Sean Cleaver wonders why games receive less criticism for the constant remasters and reboots than Hollywood does.
Read More »Opinion: Generation Media’s Martin Doyle discusses the recent developments at Google
The digital media landscape is seemingly cosmic in size and complexity, and so very tricky for us to picture in its entirety. But if I were to scale it down to something that could be analogised more clearly, it reminds me very much of Minecraft. An open-world, sandbox environment in …
Read More »Opinion: Experience Points
2017 is shaping up to be one of the best years in gaming history, but there’s something on the horizon that's getting Jem Alexander even more excited than the recent slew of fantastic games
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