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Windows Store App Labs set up in more than 30 cities across the globe
Read More »Coders and journalists named for 48-hour game jam
Mike Bithell, Andrew Smith, Jim Griffiths and Peter Theophilus-Bevis to write for Develop this weekend
Read More »Resident Evil 6 devs on the price of mass-market appeal
Few games have proved as divisive as Resident Evil 6 but the team behind the game has tried to explain the reason behind its design decisions. And as might be expected in this day and age, it’s the desire to tap into as wide an audience as possible that was …
Read More »Finalists confirmed for ME Awards 2012
Games developers, publishers, tools and service providers in running for awards
Read More »Steam lacks support for Japanese developers
Steam must address a few barriers if the digital distribution service wants to properly support the Japanese developer community, according to Marvelous AQL’s Esteban Salazar. The producer of Half-Minute Hero spoke to Gamasutra on what Valve can do to encourage Japan’s game makers to take the leap into the PC …
Read More »Arrested Bohemia devs were not scouting military base for Arma 3
Developer Bohemia has rubbished claims linking two of its developers to spying on the Greek military. MCV last week reported that Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar had been arrested on the Greek island of Lemnos on allegations that were collecting sensitive information about a military base. It was further claimed …
Read More »Three weeks till coders swap with journos in 48-hour event
London Games Festival's October hack event will turn reviewers into the reviewed
Read More »Two Bohemia Interactive devs arrested for spying on Greek military base
The Arma series prides itself on its military realism, and its developers will seemingly go to great lengths to adjust it. PC Gamer reports that two of the Czech studio’s developers, aged 28 and 33, have been arrested by Greek police after they were discovered spying on a military installation. …
Read More »Gree picks up North American indie devs
Social and mobile games publisher Gree has revealed partnerships with a handful of North American-based independent developers. The four studios include Gamenauts, InfiniDy, Oceanside Interactive, and SkyVu Entertainment. SkyVu, best known for its Battle Bears mobile franchise which boasts over 18m users, will release its latest Battle Bears effort exclusively …
Read More »Australia’s largest dev formed via Firemint and Iron Monkey merger
EA has announced today that it is bringing Melbourne’s two much-celebrated mobile developers,Iron MonkeyandFiremint, together. The newly created studio, bringing together over 40 employees from each studio, will be Firemonkeys which, according to EA, now constitutes Australia’s largest development studio. The pair of developers have been cohabitating for some time …
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