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An Angry Birds line of LEGO toys will be released next year, Rovio has announced. Their arrival will coincide with the release of The Angry Birds Movie in spring 2016. The LEGO brand has an unparalleled ability to connect with people through products that spark creativity and imagination,” Rovio CEO …

That former Man Utd winger Cristiano Ronaldo now has his own mobile game is not really a surprise. That it isn’t a football title possible is. The game in question is called Ronaldo & Hugo: Superstar Skaters. Hugo, for those who don’t know, is Hugo the Troll. He, apparently, is …

Skill-based slot machines with video game-style play have been approved for Las Vegas casinos, under legislation signed last month by Nevada governor Brian Sandoval. The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers – one of the advocates for the bill – stated that a slot machine’s normal 88 per cent payback might …

Some of the automated algorithms that have until recently been used to populate the Apple App Store have been replaced with a curated system. TechCrunch reports that Apple has removed a number of lists from its US store front including ‘New’, ‘What’s Hot’ and ‘All iPhone (Free & Paid)’ – …

Games section now curated to prevent devs taking advantage of algorithms and generated sections

Early investor Accel Partners sells all its shares in the studio

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World of Tanks firm teams up with Belarus mobile dev Melesta Games

UK developer Space Ape games has revealed that its recently released iOS title Rival Kingdoms was downloaded over 1m times in its first week of release. The numbers were in no small part aided by some very decent YouTuber backing for the game, which itself has generated some 120,000 views. …

Japanese publisher says smart devices will be its main platform from here on out