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Title is also designed to help entertain young patients during long hospital stays and difficult treatments
Read More »Toxic Games, Fallen Tree and Supergonk among this year’s Greenshoots inductees
Initiative run by Creative England and Microsoft awards British studios with Xbox One dev kits, inclusion in ID@Xbox and up to £50,000 in funding to build their IP
Read More »E3 2016: More than 1,000 games in development for ID@Xbox
Microsoft’s indie gaming initiative shows no signs of losing momentum
Read More »Microsoft (finally) turns every Xbox One into a dev kit today
Early preview build of Dev Mode out now, with full release arriving in summer
Read More »Microsoft introduces cross-network play and MonoGame support
Xbox One and Windows 10 to allow playing with other PC and console platforms
Read More »ID@Xbox: ‘There is no indiepocalypse’
Microsoft’s Agostino Simonetta says despair within the indie scene is a case of unrealistic expectations
Read More »Xbox: Why the critics are wrong about the indie apocalypse
The last few years have been great for indie developers. They have gone from being bedroom coders hidden at the back of the big games expos to being placed front and centre in Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo’s press conferences. Yet indie development hasn’t been without its challenges. Recently, the notion …
Read More »Microsoft and Creative England relaunch £500,000 Greenshoots incubator
Initiative now open to all studios in England, with links to Xbox and double the investment of previous cohorts
Read More »Xbox Live Indie Games program shutting down
Microsoft is taking steps to gradually pull support of Xbox 360’s Xbox Live Indie Games service, the firm has told registered developers. Gamasutrareports XBLIG devs will no longer be able to purchase a subscription service, effective immediately – though those interested can directly contact Microsoft to maintain access for the …
Read More »Octodad: Dadliest Catch comes to Xbox One next week
Young Horses has revealed its indie hit Octodad: Dadliest Catch will arrive on Xbox One next week. Ablog postfrom the studio announces the game where you flop around as an octopus masquerading as a family man will hit Xbox Live through the ID@Xbox self-publishing program on August 26thfor $14.99. The …
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