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Develop continues its profiles of emerging and leading technology

We take a look at Cmune's ambitious 'MMO-FPS'

Mark Rein details the latest edition of UDK

While the fortunes of the most popular MMOs have never been better, it's now harder than ever create one that succeeds. Jeremy Gaffney, executive producer at NCsoft's Carbine Studios, takes a look at the future of the genre, and offers some advice on developing a hit

Jury Rig's Darren Vine on managing memory allocation

Codeplay's games technology director Colin Riley on iterative optimisation

Seven articles from leading audio industry figures on everything from UIs for MMOs to the latest real time lighting technologies

Crytek's Licensing Team technical designer Ade Esan looks at how a real time development engine can improve the quality of a project

Trinigy's general manger Felix Roeken observes the effect on middleware of the rise of indie studios

BlitzTech studio technical director Richard Hackett talks about making the first augmented reality game for Kinect

Geomerics founder Chris Doran looks at the latest real-time lighting technologies

Havok's Jason Turbin details how the latest version of Havok Behavior can be used to prototype character interactions

NaturalMotion's head of research Joss Knight looks at retargeting from a player tracked in Kinect

Scaleform principal engineer Prasad Silva offers a guide on designing MMO UIs

This excerpt from Game Engine Gems, co-written by staff at Black Rock Studios, offers advice on deferred shading

Develop continues its profiles of emerging and leading technology

Why PS1 games and physical buttons are ready to capture a new market

John Broomhall speaks to BAFTA-award winning composer Jason Graves about his work on Visceral's horror title

Creative Assembly veteran coder Richard Broadhurst on applying next-gen tech to Total War

See what's in store for the free game making toolkit that's empowering users

Ninja Theory explains how best to use NaturalMotion's Morpheme animation system

John Broomhall profiles the audio team at Lionhead

Dietrich Banschbach, director of EMEA SSG Scale Influence at Intel, offers some advice on making the process as smooth as possible…

A guide to all the key updates to Autodesk's game dev-relevant tools and middleware