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Nintendo has confirmed that its next two smartphone titles will be free-to-play. Smartphone outings for Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem were confirmed last month. Now Wall Street Journal reports that both DeNA chief executive Isao Moriyasu and a Nintendo spokesperson have confirmed that both will be free to download. Nintendo’s …
Read More »‘Multiple buyers’ reportedly wanted to purchase Lionhead – but Microsoft wouldn’t let Fable go
’90 per cent’ of interested parties walked away when Microsoft refused to sell Fable IP, sources claim
Read More »Stellaris breaks Paradox revenue record with 200,000 day one sales
Space strategy title Stellaris has been an instant hit for publisher Paradox Interactive. The game has in its first 24 hours on sale sold over 200,000 units. That’s actually slightly short of the 250k copies sold by Paradox’s former release Cities: Skylines, but Stellaris’ higher price means that it represents …
Read More »Star Wars: Battlefront 2 due in 2017, Visceral’s Star Wars game in 2018
EA has said that a sequel to Star Wars: Battlefront will be released in 2017. Its enthusiasm is undoubtedly buoyed by the success of the first game, which in EA’s last financial year (ending March 31st) saw 14m copies shipped. That’s well ahead of the 13m EA forecast back in …
Read More »Discover 18 code samples for the Internet of Things
Intel Developer Blog: How the firm is making it easier for developers to build projects around a wider range of devices
Read More »Disney gives up on console games as it ends Infinity range
It may be the biggest name in movies, but Disney’s failure in video games is now complete. Despite some initial video game investment back in 2007/2008 (resulting in the poor selling Turok and Split/Second), Disney has struggled to match the success of rival Warner Bros. It cancelled most of its …
Read More »Framerate fixes roll out for Windows 10 UWP
Microsoft has at last added some key framerate functionality to Universal Windows Platform games on Windows 10. UWP has come under intense fire for a host of missing functionality in games supplied via the Windows Store. The company had previously promised to work to narrow the gap between these titles …
Read More »Analysis: How advertisers can make the most of the digital games revolution
Generation Media’s digital media executive Sam Clutterbucklooks at what advertisers need to be aware of within the digital games space Britain is a nation of gamers. In the youth space, over 50 per cent of kids aged seven to 14 regularly play games (Youth TGI, 2016). The digital revolution has …
Read More »Enemy owner Clerkie on turning down $1M offer for LCS spot: "Everybody around me thinks I’m crazy. Looking back, I might even think I was crazy."
DremHack Austin was a busy yet probably satisfying weekend for Dan Clerkie” Clerke. He’s still the owner of Enemy, an organization with Smite, Dota 2 and Super Smash Bros teams (though they’ve also dabbled with League of Legends and Counter-Strike in the past). But Clerkie was watching as his other …
Read More »Three ways eSports can become an even bigger business
Video game tournaments are a $500-million global business, but they have a long way to go before they can justify the big investments game-makers, team owners and others are making in them. That’s because it’s not yet clear how video game competitions, known as eSports, will take shape compared to …
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