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Virtual reality is coming to the corporate sector as HTC reveals it is releasing a Business Edition of its Vive headset. This special edition is available from this month in the US, Canada, UK, Germany and France only. The headset will then be released worldwide in the coming weeks”, HTC …

Developers will soon be able to charge a recurring fee for the games following Apple’s announcement of a new subscription system for the iOS App Store. Engadget reports that subscribed apps will retain the traditional 70/30 revenue split, although if a developer can keep a user subscribed for a year, …

The lead designer of the cherished retro RPG Mother series has embarked on an entirely different project. Polygon reports that Shigesato Itoi has just launched Dokonoko, which is a photo creation tool designed specifically for use with pets. ‘Instagram for pets’ is how the site describes it, and looking at …

Kopla Games’ clicker-meets-dungeon-crawler tops 2m downloads

Sue Youn and Ben Ansah successfully secured £50,000 in investment from Peter Jones for their Yogiyo Korean cooking range

Unity CEO tells Unite Europe audience that social aspects and advertising, rather than analytics, should be the key investment for devs wanting to ‘outperform’ mobile chart-toppers

Miguel Caron joins Shadowgun developer

Buyout of dev formed by EA and Zynga vets bolsters free-to-play firm’s LA mobile team

Franchise creator agrees to license Pocket and PC versions for region

A developer who had been told his game could not be classified as such on the iOS App Store has said the decision has been reversed. Just happening: Apple reconsider its decision, they will publish Liyla as a Game,” creator Rasheed Abueideh said. Thanks to all of you.” The Liyla …