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RimWorld Ditches Free Steam Keys Due to Fraud
With more and more games coming out, it’s not hard to see piracy and fraud becoming even bigger problems for small time companies. This has affected RimWorld developer Tynan Sylvester , effectively forcing the company to stop offering Steam keys with the external purchases of the game thanks to “refund requests” costing…
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Devs Discuss PS4 Neo And Xbox One Scorpio Development
Consoles have traditionally adopted a fairly lengthy development cycle and single specification to maintain simplicity for the consumer. Of course, the lack of hardware upgrades makes it challenge to improve graphical fidelity through a console generation. Any enhanced visuals rely on optimisation and devs learning how to eke out every…
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Dishonored 2 Devs Shocked By Testers Power Combos
When you start making something, there are always things you can never plan for and the same happens when you are making a game. Currently in development, Dishonored 2 looks to give players an even greater range of options when it comes to the combinations of tricks and powers available…
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Meta 2 Development Kit Revealed
The Meta is known for being the forefront of augmented reality. Much like virtual reality, Augmented reality is based on the user seeing virtual objects but instead of it being on an isolated screen, augmented reality lets you bring virtual objects to life. That dream of an Iron Man experience…
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Cloud Imperium Games Developer Recreates Fallout Vault in CryEngine
Robert Stephens of Cloud Imperium Games fame, has been working on his own little Fallout project, recreating the games iconic vault door in the graphics powerhouse that is CryEngine. Obviously this isn’t going to be a full game, far from it, especially given the issues with licencing and copyright. However,…
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Indie Dev Will no Longer Offer Free Press Copies
Paul Stephen-Davis, the CEO of Retro Army Limited, has announced the company will no longer provide review codes to press outlets. This decision comes after a wave of scammers and key resellers exploited the developer and pretended to be a legitimate website. Indie developers struggle to deal with the PR side…
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Here’s Why We Won’t See DirectX 12 in Action This Year
Thinking of upgrading your graphics card for the new Windows 10 and DirectX 12? Well, I think you should wait a bit longer. While everyone is hyped to see what devs can do with the latest DirectX version, we are forgetting the most important thing, which is the platform. What…
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Will Daniel Radcliffe Star in Grand Theft Auto Developer Special?
There are reports surfacing that Daniel Radcliffe is in negotiations to play the lead role for the upcoming drama about Grand Theft Auto developer, Rockstar. The new 90-min drama is about the creation of the legendary and persistently controversial Grand Theft Auto, as well as other Rockstar titles such as…
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Autodesk Game Development Suite Gets More Tools for Devs to Play With
Autodesk has apparently launched its new 3D animation and modelling software for professional indie game developers, the Autodesk Maya LT 2016. This comes as a result of the company previewing their new Stingray Game Engine at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Stingray was build using Bitsquid technology and…
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Ubisoft Far Cry 4 Dev Claims Resolution Doesn’t Matter
Please allow me to use a popular meme – “Ubisoft pls”. Unfortunately for the large name game creator they seriously can’t catch a break as of recent – but it’s thanks to their own actions and words. We’ve already reported that some Ubisoft developers think 60FPS “looks weird”, further claiming 30 FPS…
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Unreal Engine 4 Marketplace Launched to Compete with Unity
Unreal Engine 4 looks set to compete with Unity by launching its own marketplace, this will offer an easily accessible built-in resource to their engine, allowing people to browse free content that was created by the developers at Epic. The store is open for early submissions of community created content,…
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Ex-Infinity Ward Devs Form VR-Focused ‘Reload Studios’
Infinity Ward is no stranger to their staff breaking off and forming new studios, first we had Respawn Entertainment, now we have Reload Studios. Reload Studios is an LA based developer, formed by James Chung and Taehoon Oh. With a 12-strong team at Reload, the developer is working with a…
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New Game Coming To Sega Dreamcast Next Week
NG:DEV.TEAM, a German based games developer, have announced today that their latest title, NEO XYX, will be heading to the much loved and certainly not forgotten Sega Dreamcast. That’s right, despite the many years of service the Dreamcast has seen, and not forgetting the few extra generations of console gaming…
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Alienware Announces Steam Machine Release Date And “Some” Specs
Alienware has announced that their Steam Machines will be available only from September 2014 at Valve’s Steam Dev Days conference in Seattle. In addition to the release date, we get more insight on what specs we are looking to find under the hood. Alienware’s Steam Machine is Intel and NVIDIA…
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Ukie Urges Government To Push Games Production Tax Credits Through
UK games and interactive entertainment trade body calls for final push to get games production tax credits in place. Responding to today’s autumn statement by Chancellor George Osborne, Ukie CEO Dr Jo Twist welcomed plans to cap any increase in business rates and to abolish national insurance contributions for young people.…
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