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The Hardships Of iOS Development
A loss of funds and journalist payola are just two potential roadblocks
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Making Fun Predicts "Destruction Of The Game Console Model"
Publisher sees mobile and social destroying the classic game console model
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Back To The Source: Dear Esther Reborn
Rob Briscoe explains how he wrung Dear Esther's potent aesthetics from the Source engine
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Alienware's X51: PC Gaming Invades the Living Room
Digital Foundry on why PC tech is destined for your lounge
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ConsolidationVille: Social Games M&A in 2012
Digi-Capital on social, mobile and middleware acquisition opportunities in 2012
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Going Underground
Legend of Grimrock developers Almost Human on dungeons, community engagement and hitting the niche
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Gameloft: Cash in the Attic
SVP of publishing Gonzague de Vallois on the shift to mobile social, copycatting and the Gree partnership
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Has Facebook gaming peaked?
Research firm IHS says the boom may be over for games on Facebook
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Double Fine's Kickstarter program: The impact on iOS development
Tim Schafer's new approach to funding could play a role in the creation of smartphone games
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Kickstarting crowd-sourced funding
An expert panel debates the significance of Double Fine's Kickstarter windfall
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Is The PS Vita a Viable Platform For Indies?
Icon Games, Bloober, Honeyslug and Four Door Lemon give an insider's take on developing for PlayStation's new handheld
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Tech Focus: The Power of PlayStation Vita
Digital Foundry on how Sony's new launch eclipses competing mobile platforms
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PS Vita UK Launch: A Sign Of The Times
A sparse crowd at Game's Oxford Street branch proved Sony's brand loyalty, but posed some important questions
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Showtime for PlayStation Vita
Sony's Shuhei Yoshida on Vita's price, 3G vs. wifi, slow Japanese launch and the shadow of the PSP
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A Breakout Year for the Irish Games Industry
Jamie McCormick charts the rise and rise of the Irish games business
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The games media: manifestos, agendas and hot air
Web users have changed and the games media needs to catch up. Quickly
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Reverb: Solving The Publisher Problem
CEO Doug Kennedy on a new kind of publisher-developer relationship
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Tech Focus: What Next for Motion Control?
Digital Foundry on next-gen options for Move, Kinect and Wii U
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Critical Consensus: Uncharted: Golden Abyss
The PlayStation Vita struggles to contain Uncharted's scope
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Critical Consensus: Final Fantasy XIII-2
If 80+ on Metacritic is good, why is everyone so ashamed of Final Fantasy XIII?
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Newell confirms Steam user details taken
Statement reveals encrypted data taken in November hacking
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Activision's Billion Dollar Man
Eric Hirshberg steered Activision to more than a billion dollars in profits last year. How is he going to follow that in 2012?
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Escaping the Asylum: Rocksteady's five designs to success
Sefton Hill details the studio's approach to creating two celebrated Batman titles
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Crowded House
Crowdfunding may seem like a curiosity now - but it's a glimpse at the future of creative industries
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Indie Development: Not Just Fun And Games
Bit of Alright showed joie-de-vivre and creative flare in the UK indie scene - but it could do with some hard graft, too