European Union legislation may outright forbid its member countries from offering tax incentives to local game developers.
Develop reports that France's game tax relief, which was introduced in 2008 and allows the nation's videogame companies to reclaim 20 per cent of production costs, expired in January.
One of the points in our recent editorial on gamers' sense of entitlement was that many players have almost no sense of what it takes to make a game. Dinofarm Games' dissection of what it took to make a single small asset for its forthcoming strategy RPG, Auro: The Golden Prince, shows how this lack of understanding can be a real problem for developers.
One of the points in our recent editorial on gamers' sense of entitlement was that many players have almost no sense of what it takes to make a game. Dinofarm Games' dissection of what it took to make a single small asset for its forthcoming strategy RPG, Auro: The Golden Prince, shows how this lack of understanding can be a real problem for developers.
Our March issue, which is on sale February 15, features reviews of all the most important releases, together with in-depth Post Script articles, including Final Fantasy XIII-2, WipeOut 2048 and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
True Crime: Hong Kong has been renamed Sleeping Dogs and will be released later this year, publisher Square Enix has confirmed.
Disney has confirmed that Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian has left the company's employ on the day it announced that losses in its Interactive division more than doubled in the final three months of 2011.
SCEA has confirmed that the UMD Passport scheme, which lets Japanese users buy Vita licences for their PSP games, will not launch in the US.
Announced last November, UMD Passport is an application for PSP that allows users to register UMD games to their PSN accounts, and download them to their PS Vita for a nominal fee.
D3 Publisher has secured the licensing rights to three upcoming films from Dreamworks Animation, which were held by THQ until the troubled publisher announced its withdrawal from the licensed kids' game market.
The deal, announced in a press release, gives D3 the rights to develop and publish games based on Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Rise Of The Guardians, and The Croods.
Microsoft claims it has made improvements to the way its support centres handle compromised Xbox Live accounts, and in most cases is returning them to their rightful owners within three days.
The mainstream videogame industry, like Hollywood, is a production line of marketable high concepts and ‘sure-fire’ franchises. With teams now hitting 200 and budgets in the multimillions of dollars, the number of original and innovative projects seems to dwindle a little more each year.
Disney has released the first images of its upcoming animated film Wreck-It Ralph, which tells the story of a videogame villain unsatisfied with his lot in life.
Originally announced last August at the company's D23 convention, the film follows the titular Wreck-It Ralph (voiced by John C Reilly) as he becomes tired with destroying buildings in his 8-bit arcade game only for Fix-It Felix (Jack McBrayer) to clean up the mess and take all the glory.
Disney has released the first images of its upcoming animated film Wreck-It Ralph, which tells the story of a videogame villain unsatisfied with his lot in life.
Originally announced last August at the company's D23 convention, the film follows the titular Wreck-It Ralph (voiced by John C Reilly) as he becomes tired with destroying buildings in his 8-bit arcade game only for Fix-It Felix (Jack McBrayer) to clean up the mess and take all the glory.
David Jaffe has moved to clarify reports he is quitting Eat Sleep Play, the studio he co-founded in 2007, to develop casual games for mobile platforms.
Unity Technologies has announced an agreement with LG that will see Unity-authored games playable on the South Korean company's range of Smart TVs.
Bethesda has released the Creation Kit, a suite of modding tools for the PC version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, along with a high-res texture pack.
The Creation Kit lets players create, share and download user-generated content through the Steam Workshop. Bethesda will be releasing a series of tutorial videos, the first of which is below, to help modders of all levels.
Our March issue, which is on sale February 15, features reviews of all the most important releases, together with in-depth Post Script articles, including Final Fantasy XIII-2, WipeOut 2048 and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
With its friendly pastoral setting and diminutive residents that would be equally at home in Camberwick Green, Spry Fox’s match-three puzzler appears a simple and sweetly innocent confection. But behind this welcoming exterior lies a game of fierce intelligence and almost bewildering depth. Complex but accessible, inventive yet familiar, a game that has gripped browser windows is every bit as troublingly addictive in the palm of your hand.
Our March issue, which is on sale February 15, features reviews of all the most important releases, together with in-depth Post Script articles, including Final Fantasy XIII-2, WipeOut 2048 and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
David Jaffe is to quit Eat Sleep Play, the studio he co-founded in 2007, according to reports.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that, with work on Twisted Metal now complete, Eat Sleep Play has laid off eight staff - around 20 per cent of its workforce - and is refocusing its efforts on mobile games.
Solitaire. Next to Minesweeper it’s one of the most popular videogames of all time. It’s a safe bet that you’ve already lost hours to the hunt for one of gaming’s finest rewards: the bouncing cards that marked a successful run at Wes Cherry’s classic, which shipped with Windows from 1990. And you should therefore be very excited by PopCap appropriating the game for its Blitz series, joining Bejeweled and Zuma, both released in 2010.
Troubled retailer Game Group has this morning confirmed the loss of 46 jobs at its Basingstoke headquarters.
The UK's largest specialist videogame retailer told MCV that the cuts were part of a restructuring drive. One of those leaving is Dave Hughes, who oversaw the relaunch of Game's website and will officially depart in March.
For the first Flipper, designer Hugo Smits built a voxel engine that worked on the DS, and used it to power a series of simple obstacle course challenges that took place across a destructible environment. For the sequel, the Dutch developer has dropped all that and turned in an arcade platformer depressingly reminiscent of Ninjadoodle’s One Button Bob. All told, it’s a disappointing creative trajectory.
Double Fine founder Tim Schafer has said that he wants to make a sequel to 2005 platformer Psychonauts.
"I would love to do Psychonauts 2, I've actually pitched that to publishers several times and no-one has taken the bait so far," Schafer told Digital Spy. "So it is hard because fans don't often know how the business works, with the difference between a developer and a publisher, it's hard to explain that.
If you're a fan of Introversion's Defcon, how about taking things one step further? AWE (Atomic Weapons Establishment) is responsible for maintaining the UK's nuclear deterrent and supporting national nuclear security.
Tiny Tower, the iOS resource management sim developed by three-man indie studio Nimblebit, has been downloaded ten million times, the developer has announced.
The milestone was revealed on Twitter by Nimblebit's Ian Marsh. "To celebrate Tiny Tower reaching 10 million iOS downloads," he writes, "we're giving away over 10 million Tower Bux to players."