Mac support is the principal addition in Epic Games' latest update to its Unreal Development Kit (UDK) beta, with the company promising developers "easy cross-platform distribution."
In a statement seen by Gamasutra, Epic said: "UDK games can now run on Mac OS. Every UDK game's potential userbase has now increased dramatically yet again.
"The development process is virtually identical for games to be run on the Mac platform, but the packaging and deployment process does require some additional steps."
EA has confirmed reports that it is to close Visceral Studios, the Australian developer which worked on Dead Space, The Godfather 2 and Dante's Inferno.
According to InnoGames, the online publisher's German players spend on average 32 per cent longer playing its games than market leader Bigpoint's. InnoGames' release highlights ComScore data which showed that while Bigpoint had approximately 2.4 million players spending 7.4 million hours across the publisher's 71 games during June 2011, InnoGames 1.1 players spent 4.1 million hours across just five games in the same period.
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford is on record as saying that June's Forever wouldn't be the last we'd see of Duke Nukem, and the studio is now seeking feedback on the game, presumably as part of its planning for Duke's next outing. You don't even need to have played the game to give your feedback - it appears Gearbox is as interested in why you didn't - and the survey only takes a few minutes. We'd fill it out ourselves, of course, but we assume Gearbox already knows our thoughts.
Mobile market research firm Distimo looked at the 300 most popular apps on Apple's App Store and found that downloads of free apps had grown 34 per cent since last year. Downloads of paid apps, however, have grown by just 7 per cent.
Despite just 4 per cent of apps on the download service using the system, 72 per cent of all App Store revenue comes through in-app purchasing, up from just 28 per cent in 2010. Of that figure, 24 per cent was through paid apps, and double that through free apps.
This year, eleven of the hundreds of games on the Tokyo Game Show floor were honoured with a Future Game Award by organisers the Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association. The sole foreign recipient of an award, according to Andriasang, was EA's upcoming shooter Battlefield 3.
According to Joystiq, Ubisoft's initial shipment of Assassin's Creed: Revelations for PlayStation 3 will also include the 2007 original. Ubisoft has just confirmed that the offer applies to the European, as well as the North American, release of the game.
In 2008, Harmonix announced that it was working with Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Q Entertainment to bring the Rock Band franchise to Japanese shores. More than three years later that is yet to transpire, and at last week's Tokyo Game Show CEO Alex Rigopulos explained why.
Capcom cancelled what would have been Mega Man's 3DS debut in July, and former head of production Keiji Inafune apologised to fans soon after despite leaving Capcom last October. Speaking to 4Gamer - translated by Game Blurb - Inafune reveals that he reached out to the publisher in the hope of saving the game. He explains that, when he told Capcom he was leaving, he offered to stay on as a contractor to finish projects he had started.
There’s a line that should be drawn between encouraging players to make a game better, and relying on them to make it playable. Or is there? Even that, it seems, is for the Trackmaniacs to decide. Visit the official forums for TrackMania 2 and what you’ll see is a game being documented more than discussed.
The guns – all 17 million of them – may be the most obvious draw, but it’s the setting of Pandora that ultimately saves Borderlands from a life spent aping Halo. The planet’s as craggy and hostile as any Forerunner ring-world, but it’s built to serve humour rather than dry, rattling grandeur, and its dramas are personal, for the most part, rather than apocalyptic.
“Historically, however, video games have shied away from game designs that required social organisation. The industry has long believed that organisation of people in that way doesn’t scale, and that while its fine for sessional games like a Wii Sports party, it just gets too complicated to keep a long term game going for most players to bother.”
Players of the online game Foldit have helped discover the structure of an enzyme that had the scientific community stumped for a decade, representing a significant step forward in attempts to cure retroviral diseases like AIDS.
The topic of ‘personal identity’ in philosophy is a knotty one, as Julian Baggini’s recent book, The Ego Trick, shows. What guarantees that you are the same person from one day to the next, or from one decade to the next? Some thinkers favour a story about psychological consistency, which others attempt to challenge with fantastical parables. Suppose that, through some magic sci-fi process, you suddenly underwent ‘fission’, so that there were now two identical human beings who shared all your thoughts and memories. Which one would be ‘you’? Both?
Deep Silver's Dead Island is the UK all-formats number one for the second week in a row.
The open-world zombie holds its lead over last week's number two, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, which stays in second place despite sales falling by 52 per cent.