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Spinor unveils Shark 3D engine
CEO Folker Schamel describes the tool as "breaking ground" in visual editing and customisation
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Asylum extends Q engine agreement
London-based developer to use Qube's platform for 4 more titles
Feature
Telling Tales
Telltale's Dan Connors on the importance of storytelling, and why more companies are looking at the episodic business model
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More companies will move into episodic games - Telltale
But CEO Dan Connors isn't concerned by an increase in competition in the genre
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Lego Harry Potter, Crystal Skull games next from Traveller's Tales
Studio also pitching to Peter Jackson for Hobbit tie-in
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DCMS "fully aware" of industry finance issues
Government department to set up round table discussion to hear concerns
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Bob Bates returns to IGDA chair
Veteran game designer replaces Jen MacLean; 3 new members added to board
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Crytek to show multiplatform CryEngine 3 at GDC
Engine built for current and future platforms, says CEO
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Call of Duty 4 scoops three BAFTAs
New EA titles Dead Space, Spore and Boom Blox also pick up masks at UK awards ceremony
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UK games industry needs focus in Budget
Sheridans writes to Andy Burnham MP to urge action on receding global position
Feature
Sheridans letter to Andy Burnham MP
The full text of media law firm's request for action from the government in the forthcoming Budget
News
Ensemble Studios a "victim of its own success" - Bonfire
Founder David Rippy talks of former RTS developer as being pigeonholed; reveals new project in "completely different" genre
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Eutechnyx wins national work experience award
UK developer is "world leader" for investment in graduate talent
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Creative Assembly: Consoles no threat to PC strategy games
Empire: Total War developer sees no evidence that its franchise is in danger
Feature
Strategic Development
Creative Assembly's Mike Simpson on the PC vs consoles argument, development costs and deciding on which tech to support
News
Ubisoft pulls I Am Alive from Darkworks
Title brought in-house to Ubisoft Shanghai in order to meet new release time frame
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Confusion over China developer events
ChinaGDC and China GDC both set to take place in Shanghai later this year
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Tax, finance and skills top UK list of concerns
Games business leaders speak out as UK is set to fall further in global pecking order
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Creative Assembly: Innovation is crucial to franchise survival
Studio director Mike Simpson underlines importance of staying fresh to avoid getting "bored silly"
Feature
Assembly Time!
Studio director Mike Simpson on franchise innovation, community pressure, and how Shogun was nearly a "cheap B-grade Command and Conquer clone"
Opinion
Creative Downturn
The recession could hurt creativity - but if publishers won't take risks, others certainly will
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Sega and Pyro at work on Planet 51 game
Children's animated film to be adapted into cross-platform videogame for release later this year