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Developers are being lured away from PC and mobile platforms back to the latest generation of console hardware, according to a new report. The 2014 Toolbox Report from UK industry body TIGA found that Apple’s iPhone and iPad were the most popular devices among developers, with 73 and 72 per …
Read More »Two Witcher 3 devs quit CD Projekt for indie studio
Marek Ziemak and Maciej Szczesnik, key members of the team behind The Witcher 3, have left CD Projekt Red. Szczesnik revealed that the duo has joint Warsaw-based indie mobile dev 11 Bit Studios, where he will lead the development of a new game, according toPolygon. Ziemak worked as gameplay producer …
Read More »Ex-Rebellion and Guerrilla devs join City Interactive
Sniper: Ghost Warrior creator City Interactive Games has hired two former developers from Rebellion and Guerrilla Games. Ex-Rebellion senior producer Steve Hart has joined the firm as executive producer, and Paul Robinson has also been recruited to the firm’s senior creative and design team. During his five-year stint at Rebellion, …
Read More »Nintendo not accepting Wii U submissions from Japanese indie developers
Quick – there might be a new indie villain in town! Nintendo has confirmed that, for reasons which remain unclear, it is not currently allowing indie developers from Japan to submit games for possible release on Wii U. "The policy in question is the decision of Nintendo’s department responsible for …
Read More »Indie devs behind Cube World suffering repeated DoS attacks
A two-person family development team has seen the launch of its highly anticipated PC title ruined by repeated cyber attacks. Cube World was finally released in alpha last week but very few gamers have been lucky enough to get their hands on it due to repeated store downtime. It transpires, …
Read More »Nintendo is "making a big move" for indie devs
Perhaps spotting a chink in the enemy’s armour, Nintendo appears to have rejuvenated its efforts to win favour amongst indie developers. I’ve seen personally, first-hand, Nintendo making a big move to try and get smaller, unique, independent games on Wii U downloadable,” Capybara Games’ Nathan Vella, of Sword & Sworcery …
Read More »Molyneux warns devs over IAP investigation
Developers must be careful of how they manage their free-to-play games and in-app purchases in the face of the Office of Fair Trading’s investigation into the business model, says Peter Molyneux. Speaking toDevelopEditor Will Freeman at the F2P Summit, as transcribed byThe Guardian,Molyneux warned of the dangers that a varying …
Read More »Cerny: We didn’t want PS4 to be a puzzle that programmers had to solve
The ever-closer relationship between Sony and developers has been at the heart of the PS4’s design since the project’s early days in 2008. PS4’s lead designer Mark Cerny told Gamasutra that after canvassing devs in private, it quickly be came clear that his main priority was to build a machine …
Read More »Western devs drafted in to save Last Guardian
Sony has sent in its Western studios to help tackle the troubled development of Team Ico’s The Last Guardian, Sony’s game design chief has revealed. In an interview withWired, Shuhei Yoshida said that Sony Santa Monica and other teams in the US and Europe have been brought in to support …
Read More »OPINION: Can we benefit from piracy?
With mass lay-offs, studios dropping like flies and mega-franchises imploding under our feet, it’s tempting to declare that there’s never been a worse time to get into video game development. The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment (UKIE) fuelled further negativity back in January by estimating that software piracy – that …
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