Civilization V looks to improve yet again upon its predecessor. During E3, one of the producers at 2K tried to tell us what it is that makes Civ V so much cooler than all previous Civs. Simplicity is one of the changes to the game. And that doesn’t mean they’ve made the game easy and casual, it just means that they made the game clean up its act. This means...

Over 500 games industry creatives stormed Brighton the other day for the Develop Awards, now in their eighth year of celebrating the very best in European games development. Several rising studios left with high honours, with teams such as Hello Games, developers of Joe Danger, walking away with the Best New Studio and Micro Studio awards, and the developer...

Last week, I wrote an article regarding the connection between videogame consoles and computers, and the war in the Congo – more specifically, people’s reactions to an article in Kotaku on the subject. Now, I am able to offer you a chance to show that you care. I chose to treat the subject of ‘conflict minerals’ – in this case, minerals...

Rockstar San Diego, the team that brought us the western smash hit Red Dead Redemption, has announced that they have cut “about” 40 employees from the dev team. Responding to the cuts, Rockstar San Diego studio manager Steve Martin said; “As is typical with game development, our team sizes have always fluctuated over the course of the development cycle....

Speaking at this year’s Develop conference (as reported at Develop Online), Sean Murray of four – man team Hello Games has revealed that over 30% of XBLA titles are so called ‘casual’ games; but that such titles make up less than 5% of the digital market. He lays the blame for this at the door of Uno, claiming that publishers failed to...