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We speak to Creative England's Rob Crossley about the Greenshoots indie development project
Read More »ID@Xbox turns three: How has Microsoft’s indie revolution fared?
When it launched in August 2013, Microsoft’s ID@Xbox initiative marked a bold commitment to independent development by the platform holder. Three years on, what’s next for the programme?
Read More »New ID@XBox game I, Hope will donate all profits to cancer charities
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
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