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BGI hopes to build on its charitable status to access more funding to extend its programmes and collaborate with more partners
Read More »Sunny days at the BGI – organisation gains charitable status as NVM launches ‘Summer of Buttons’ exhibition
When We Made… Yooka-Laylee
We take a look behind the scenes at the development of Yooka-Laylee. Playtonic talks about the challenges of building upon Banjo-Kazooie’s heritage and having 73,000 people looking out for everything you do
Read More »Out of the home, out of this world: life on the commercial frontier of VR
Location-based operators are now the frontline of VR adoption. We speak to one such operator, Centre VR in Bournemouth, about its learnings from running VR games day-in, day-out on the south coast
Read More »G2A says it will develop a new ‘key-blocking’ tool if indies are prepared to use it
"We are aware that this proposal doesn't solve all the issues," the company said
Read More »How to grow your mobile studio: ‘If you’re not having fun, you’re doing something wrong’
In his Develop:Brighton talk, Mathias Royer highlighted the key aspects of growing your mobile studio: "You’re not just building a game, you are building a team, a company and ultimately, a culture"
Read More »Nintendo announces Nintendo Switch Lite
The new system "gives gamers more colour and price point options"
Read More »PlayStack’s Rob Crossley tells us ‘what publishers really want’ after listening to 1,620 dev pitches
“I’m constantly amazed that, of the 1,620 game pitches I’ve assessed, more than half can be reduced to ‘recently successful game but with my art assets’. They’re not clones. But they are cover bands.”
Read More »Regional spotlight: Brighton is all pride and no prejudice
Over 3,000 of the games industry will travel to the vibrant south coast city for Develop:Brighton this month. For this second regional spotlight, we talk to a handful of the games businesses that call the city home
Read More »Welcome to Develop:Brighton – we ask local devs why they love their home town conference
Develop:Brighton kicks off next week, we talk to The Chinese Room, Hangar 13, Hi-Rez, Unity and more about having a conference on your doorstep
Read More »‘We love starting again!’ – Why Media Molecule remade Dreams from scratch
Media Molecule tells us about Dreams' development journey, making sit-on-the-sofa-friendly tools, curating its growing community, the challenges and benefits of potential monetisation, VR and being amazed by what its players can do
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