Skyrim developer Bethesda and Fable studio Lionhead are seeking to fill positions that suggest both studios are preparing for a new generation of hardware.
Cloud gaming service OnLive has partnered with the Independent Games Festival (IGF) to offer 30-minute demos of a selection of games shortlisted for the annual awards ceremony.
Meteor Entertainment, parent company of Hawken developer Adhesive Games, has raised $10 million from investors to help get the game to market.
Hawken, a free-to-play multiplayer mech shooter, is being developed by a team of just 23 people and will be released for PC on December 12. VentureBeat reports that investors include Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital - both of whom were early backers of Riot Games' League Of Legends, which now boasts around five million daily active users.
Unreal Engine 4 will be revealed at next week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Epic Games has confirmed.
US game academic Eric Zimmerman was recently asked by the Jace Hall show to contribute his thoughts about its 50 favourite game endings list. But rather than coo over Portal 2 or something, the eggheaded killjoy instead took the opportunity to state that his favourite games don't have endings.
The title is, of course, a playful nod to the pedigree of its director, Hironobu Sakaguchi – the creator of one of the most famous franchises in videogame history and instigator of an entire genre. A title like The Last Story, though, carries a certain weight of expectation. Is this really a game to rival his previous work on the Final Fantasy series? Is it really the last word on interactive storytelling?
SpecialEffect, the UK charity which helps young people with disabilities play videogames, has been confirmed as the newest member of UK trade association TIGA.
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UK retailer Game Group has confirmed that it will be stocking Ubisoft-published PS Vita launch titles from tomorrow.
Last July, Texas governor Rick Perry stood behind a podium at EA BioWare’s North Austin offices – flanked by two chuffed EA executives – and announced that the publisher would be expanding its operations in Texas. The plan is expected to create 300 new jobs in the city, spanning across programming, art, and customer support. EA Sports will also be setting up a new branch to complement its teams in Orlando and Burnaby.
Apple looks set to give a thorough overhaul to the App Store to improve discoverability following the acquisition of Chomp.
Chomp's search engine, available as a standalone app on iOS and Android, enables users to search not just by title - which, obviously, requires that users know what they're looking for - but by type.
Trade association UKIE has today called on government to improve access to finance for UK game developers.
The call comes in a policy paper submitted to government ahead of next month's Budget, in which UKIE makes ten recommendations for how to better enable UK videogame companies to secure investment and tax relief.
Talking about ourselves is one of our favorite occupations in the game industry. Even more so when a trend presents itself that holds the promise (or menace, depending on your point of view) of reshaping the way games are made, consumed and enjoyed. When that happens, the soul-searching, pontificating and resulting debate can become overwhelming, obscured in a cloud of Internet-enabled, knee-jerk rage at the opportunities brought about by 'change'.
Game Closure, creator of an SDK enabling cross-platform multiplayer in HTML5, has raised $12 million in investment after turning down approaches from Facebook and Zynga.
Almost eight out of ten people buying PS Vita at UK retail picked up the cheaper WiFi-only model.
The figure comes from UKIE's weekly software chart, which suggested Sony's new handheld had enjoyed a strong launch. While hardware sales figures won't be revealed until Sony chooses to make them public, we do know that 79 per cent chose the WiFi model over its 3G equivalent.
Conventional literary wisdom urges authors to begin in medias res – in the middle of things. Instead of letting your audience dip a toe in the water, decide the temperature's not quite right and retreat to their beach towel, just toss them flailing into the open ocean and watch the survival reflex kick in. Ziggurat – an iOS game designed by Tim Rogers, the polarising author of so much 'publish-now-edit-never' brain spew – has a potentially better idea.
Uncharted: Golden Abyss is the new UK all-formats number one in a week which suggests PS Vita has enjoyed a strong UK launch.
Almost a third of Vita buyers picked up the Nathan Drake-starring adventure to propel it to top spot, ahead of another Vita game, FIFA Football, which was bought by 18 per cent of new Vita owners.
Vita's sole other top ten entry is Rayman Origins; while its chart position factors in sales across all platforms, Vita's impact on sales is plain to see as it rises 31 places to number five.
Sequels to Pokémon Black and White have been announced for Nintendo's ageing DS.
The news comes from Andriasang, which reports that Game Freak's Pokémon game director Junichi Mashida announced the games - named Pokémon Black 2 and Pokémon White 2 - on Japanese TV show Pokémon Smash yesterday.
