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What is Google looking for from its 4,000 would-be Stadia developers?
Google today revealed that over 4,000 games companies had applied for access to Stadia via its Stadia.dev site. Sam Corcoran, a technical account manager for Stadia, noted the figure in a broad talk on the progress of its fledgling Stadia platform at the Develop:Brighton conference. With all those games companies …
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
Read More »Media Molecule headlines our Develop:Brighton issue
Also featuring our big regional spotlight on Brighton, plus Sharkmob talking Tencent, PQube on its biggest year yet, location-based VR, the making of Yooka-Laylee, and much more...
Read More »Redhill Games’ first funding round secures $11.4m
"We’re positioned to move forward aggressively on our first big title"
Read More »Publishing rights for Alan Wake ‘revert’ to Remedy
The deal will see the company earn EUR2.5m of royalties
Read More »QA testers report feeling like ‘second-class citizens’ at COD developer Treyarch
"It’s just a culture of not being cared about"
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