Development

Microsoft has big plans for internal development and has pushed them forward with the creation of a new first party studio, known as Leap Experience Pioneers, featuring a logo that looks rather similar to a certain flying/falling Austrian of recent fame. Just under a week ago, Microsoft filed a new …

It was set to be one of the biggest RPG releases of the year, if not the biggest, but now it's not to be, at least not until next year, as CD Projekt Red has announced with a heavy heart, that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, won't be hitting the …

Considering all of the great titles that have come out of the Tim Schafer led Double Fine (Iron Brigade, Brutal Legend, Psychonauts, The Cave etc.) it's never done a sequel. In some cases, that's because the company split its developers up into smaller teams, so the chances of a giant …

The last time we saw Sam blowing away headless, bomb wielding psychopaths and giant scorpion centaurs was back in 2012, with Serious Sam 3: BFE, but since then he's been relatively quiet. Sure there's been the odd indie effort and there was that humble bundle that hinted at possible future …

Even with the teases and hints that a sequel to Shaq Fu might be in the works, and even after Shaq himself said so in an interview, I still didn't think we'd actually get one, but that's exactly what's happening. Over at Indiegogo right now is Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn and …

We knew something big was happening with DirectX at the Games Developer Conference this year, since the brief for the event was posted on the official event planner site. However this is the first time we've seen anything about it involving the next version of DirectX. Initially it just sounded …

Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced significant changes to the leadership team. As a result of the changes, the software giant will lose Tony Bates and Tami Reller, who played significant roles at Microsoft in the recent years. Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft, wants to ensure that the senior …

Riot Games first talked about the much requested Team Builder feature in League of Legends back in October last year, but it's taken until today for it to open the tool up for public beta testing. It's available to try for the next two days and will allow players to …

Interceptor Entertainment, the work from home developer that remade several of the original Duke Nuke'm classics for mobile operating systems, has bought up the creator of the character, 3D Realms, with plans to not only relaunch the company, but Duke Nuke'm as well. “Their back catalogue is quite large with …

With just about a year left with DayZ team lead and creator Dean Hall working on the game, clearly Bohemia is looking to step up production, as it's taken on a load of new people, as Hall puts it, “effectively doubling the whole project.” It also seems like Project Zomboid …

We heard a couple of days ago about how the console versions of Matt and Trey's upcoming South Park: The Stick of Truth, were being censored in some specific areas, mainly involved abortion and anal probing. However, it turns out that this wasn't some ratings board or government forcing the …

Although EA's recent release and butchering of seminal classic Dungeon Keeper on mobiles was perhaps the worst example of a ‘free to play' game being anything but, the practice of tricking people into playing “free” games that turn out to be little more than an exercise annoying you enough to pay …

Most of the games and demos produced for the Oculus Rift to date have been first person experiences. That makes total sense too, as it makes it easier to give the game a feeling of immersion and if done well it can create a really realistic feeling world, but that's …

Microsoft has seen the writing on the wall – finally – Mantle and the rise of Steam boxes, could see us all jumping ship to a new OS, with a new API with nary a look over our shoulder. To help combat that, it's looking to give DirectX a real …

Indie studio, Failbetter Games, has revealed that it has been secretly working with Bioware “on and off” over the last year on an unannounced project. The Indie Developer is best known for its browser based game, Fallen London, an adventure game set in an alternative version of Victorian London. In …

King, the maker of games like Candy Crush “Saga,” which famously and recently attempted to legally batter Stoic Games for the release of its actual saga, the Banner Saga, has now filed an “express abandonment,” of the “Candy” trademark, which it managed to trademark recently. Ah, it's good to see …

3D Realms recently announced another flashback in video game form, with Duke Nuke'm: Mass Destruction. While we don't really know anything about it apart from a single image and this teaser site, Gearbox wants it to stay that way, as it's launched legal action against 3D Realms, on the grounds …

One of my favourite indie games from last year, was Reus, a god sim that had you moulding the landscape to your desire and managing the humans that settled there. It had its flaws, but it had a beautiful aesthetic, challenges that encouraged repeat play and plenty of things to …

Irrational Games, the developer that gave us some of the most visually striking and engaging FPS titles from the best part of the last decade, is set to close in the near future, with co-founder Ken Levine looking to create a new, tightly knit studio from a handful of Irrational …

South Park: The Stick of Truth has had a troubled development life. It was being handled by THQ for some time, but faced delays as that long-time publishing house slowly fell to pieces and then when it was picked up by Ubisoft more delays were announced, pushing it to December …

When I held a Rift party towards the end of last year, inviting friends and relatives to come and try out all the different Oculus Rift demos I'd been playing, the handful that really stood out for people included a few of the roller coaster demos. However none of them …

As if one wasn't enough – or it wanted to-re appropriate assets it had already created – Slightly mad Studios, the developer behind the upcoming next-gen racing title, Project Cars, has announced another racing game called World of Speed. It's an open world, socially focused racing title and functions like …

If like me part of you has always been saddened that Lionhead's B.C. never saw the light of day, then chances are you've also been keeping an eye on the Kickstarter success, The Stomping Land, which sees players taking on the role of a pre-historic tribesman, fighting dinosaurs, building a …

Rust, the open world survival and trouser finding sim created by Garry's Mod developer, Garry Newman, has now completely ditched zombies from the game. While Rust was initially intended as more of an open world DayZ, with the current spate of zombie survival titles out there, Newman felt they had …

Poor Tim Schafer, he just wants to enjoy his sandwhich in peace, but without Amnesia Fortnight, everyone at Double Fine pitches directly to him. That won't do, so he's launched 2014's Amnesia Fortnight once again with public involvement, Humble Bundle pre-ordering and a Two Player Productions documentary to commemorate it all. …

Monster Hunter fans outside of the Asian markets have been screwed out of a lot of the series' best games. While the handheld entries always seem to make it to this part of the world, home console releases are few and far between and ultimately, the only two you can …

One of the most impressive Oculus Rift demos that's been showcased to date, is Eve: Valyrie, a first person, cockpit, space-shooter based in the Eve universe, but Rift support was an after thought – or at least that's what we thought. In-fact, as it turns out, Oculus and Eve developer CCP Games …

Ubisoft has announced that it's going to launch a graduate program which will see as many as 25 different university graduates given full paying positions at Ubisoft developers, to not only give them a leg up in the industry, but also to help the publisher secure the best and brightest …

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday appointed Satya Nadella on the position of the chief executive officer effective immediately. Satya Nadella is a server and cloud specialist who has been serving Microsoft for 22 years. The new chief executive officer strongly believes in Microsoft's innovations. The new head of Microsoft promises to …

Survival horror is the latest vogue genre of development and there's some great examples of it, whether you're looking at a single player experience like Don't Starve, or the hugely popular multiplayer ones like DayZ and Rust. However apart from DayZ, which is mostly based on a real location, they're …