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Apple last night unveiled two brand new iOS products, adding yet more options to its already swelling catalogue of smartphones and tablets. First up is the iPhone SE, which is best thought of as an iPhone 6 crammed into an iPhone 5 chassis, will go on sale at the end …
Read More »Bigpoint acquired by Chinese games giant Youzu
Online games giant Bigpoint has been acquired by Chinese games specialist Youzu Interactive. The deal will go through in April, subject to Chinese acquisition processes. Bigpoint is a specialist in free-to-play online and mobile games with offices around the world (including its native Hamburg, Lyon, Istanbul, San Francisco, Berlin and …
Read More »Free PSN Fallout 4 Season Passes revoked
A number of gamers who thought they’d grabbed the Fallout 4 Season Pass for free last week are out of luck. The 39.99 download, which gives access to the RPG’s future DLC, suddenly had its price reduced to a quite bargainous 0.00 last week, leading to a flurry of stories …
Read More »Margin Makers: Guide to The Division merchandise
Tom Clancy’s The Division has only been out for two weeks but it is already breaking records. The RPG has sold more copies in its first 24 hours than any game in Ubisoft’s history and has become the best-selling Q1 game ever. The firm did not provide any sales numbers …
Read More »International Factfile 2016: Sweden
Sweden is responsible for many triple-A titles both on mobile and traditional platforms. For instance, Minecraft, The Division, Star Wars Battlefront and Candy Crush Saga have all been developed by Swedish studios. Swedish games have often been described as booming and for good reason,” stated Per Strmbck, the spokesperson for …
Read More »Popular speedrunner has Mario Maker levels wiped by Nintendo
Nintendo’s turbulent relationship with the online games community continues to fumble along. Kotaku reports that the platform holder has seen fit to wipe clean all of the Mario Maker levels created by speedrunner David ‘GrandPOObear’ Hunt. Streaming Mario Maker is 90 per cent of my stream, which is 90 per …
Read More »Big job losses at Scribblenauts studio 5th Cell
5th Cell, creator of the Scribblenauts series has been forced to cut a number of positions. According to tweets from former lead animator Tim Borrelli, artists, programmers, designers, QA and IT workers are among the 45 staff laid off. Borrelli stated that the first round of losses took place last …
Read More »Punch Club has been pirated 1.6m times, sold 300k copies
Indie publisher TinyBuild has revealed that Punch Club has sold 300,000 units, as well as some alarming information about the degree to which the game has been pirated. The title has been illegally downloaded 1.6m times since it launched earlier this year. That breaks down as one million times on …
Read More »Meet South Korea’s High School Esports Team
Forget basketball or baseball. These students are members of their school’s officialLeague of Legendsteam. And like many young esports hopefuls, their dream is to go pro. According toDaily EsportsandFomos(via tipster Sang), principal Bang Seung Ho ofAhyeon Polytechnic High Schoolin South Korea created an esports department (which was later renamed the …
Read More »Firewatch sold 500k in its first month, recouped dev costs in one day
Publisher Panic has expressed its gratitude for the way in which the video games community has made its recent narrative adventure title Firewatch such a great success. The company has revealed that in its first month Campo Santo’s game sold around 500,000 full-price units. Furthermore, it recouped the money spent …
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