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Record-breaking Kickstarter card game Exploding Kittens is about to make its video game bow. Tomorrow (Thursday January 21st) will see the release of Exploding Kittens on iOS. The title, developed by Seattle’s Substantial in conjunction with original creator Matthew Inman, will cost $1.99 in the US. Cosmetic microtransactions will also …
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Fire Fu, Super Arc Light and Apestorm will release on iOS and Android during Q1 2016
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Vietnamese indie and Japanese developer of Pick-Xell working on ‘N Project’
Read More »Kabam sells old IP and publishing business to Gaea Mobile
Kingdoms of Camelot, The Hobbit and Dragons of Atlantis among ‘first-generation’ titles offloaded to Chinese publisher
Read More »Final Fantasy creator to begin development of new game in 2016
Hironobu Sakaguchi insists mysterious title will have an ‘original worldview’
Read More »Games flood but fail to dominate Apple TV
Around 1,000 games already released for tvOS but only eight make it into Top 50 most popular apps
Read More »Cracking the Asian mobile games market
Jae Chan Shin, CEO of mobile game developer InnoSpark, shares key insights into this lucrative
Read More »Apple names Lara Croft Go as iPhone Game of the Year
Square Enix’s isometric puzzle platformer Lara Croft Go has been named by Apple as the best iPhone game of 2015. Note that the award has nothing to do with commercial performance – it’s the game Apple’s games editorial team has chosen as their favourite. Bethesda’s Fallout Shelter and 1Button’s Mr …
Read More »SGN acquires two indie studios
US mobile firm dips into $130m for new acquisitions
Read More »Apple TV games reportedly making less than £70 a day
Big hitters seeing revenue dive weeks after launch
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