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Japanese mobile giant DeNA has announced it is closing down its Transformers title Battle Tactics this May Posting on the publisher’s forums– as spotted by Seibertron–an admin revealed that Battle Tactics was to cease operations in the coming months. In addition, the admin – Nick – announced a timeline of …
Read More »Nintendo cuts earnings guidance, lowers 3DS sales forecasts
Revenues for fiscal 2016 are expected to be 12.3 per cent lower than originally predicted, Nintendo has told investors. The company now believes it will achieve sales of 500bn for the period, which is down from the previous forecast of 570bn. That’s also less than 2015’s 549bn. Nintendo has also …
Read More »Trine dev Frozenbyte links popularity to price for new game
Higher community score in demo for Shadwen means a lower release price for the full title
Read More »Digital Rise of the Tomb Raider sales three times that of Xbox One
It appears that the PC release of Rise of the Tomb Raider had a strong debut. SuperData’s January digital games market report claims that Lara Croft’s latest adventure sold three times as many copies on PC as it did digitally on Xbox One in its first month. This obviously precludes …
Read More »Resident Evil 4, 5 and 6 shuffling to PS4 and Xbox One
Capcom is bringing its three most recent mainline Resident Evil titles to next-gen consoles. Each will retail digitally and cost 15.99, with Resident Evil 6 leading the charge on March 29th. It will include all of the original’s costume DLC. Resident Evil 5 will follow in the summer and then …
Read More »Valve increases CS:GO Major prize pools to $1m
The base pool for all future CS:GO Major tournaments has been raised from $250,000 to $1m thanks to Valve’s increased investment in eSports. Beginning with next month’s MLG Columbus event, every Valve-sponsored Major event will have the increased prize pool, offering $500,000 to the winners of each competition. There are …
Read More »2K and Curve back next week’s MCV Awards
There’s just a week to go until the MCV Awards, and some of the biggest names in the business have lined up to support the event. The MCV Awards 2016 are taking place at the swanky new venue of Hilton Bankside on Thursday March 3rd. BBC funny man Miles Jupp …
Read More »Pokémon Sun and Moon trademarks registered by Nintendo
The big surprise from tomorrow’sPokmon Direct video may have just been spoilt. Nintendo in Europe has registered the names Pokmon Moon” and Pokmon Sun”, as spotted byVideogamer news chief David Scammell. This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Pokemon franchise (at least in Japan) and Nintendo is marking the …
Read More »SpecialEffect’s GameBlast16 kicks off tomorrow
A 24-hour Twitch stream kicking off tomorrow hopes to raise money for the really very wonderful SpecialEffect. The event is called GameBlast16. It will be broadcast live on Twitch from the Cambridge HQ of Runescape developer Jagex. Activities include the 1,000 litre gunging of the Runescape dev team, who will …
Read More »Telling a story through match-three in Wooga’s Futurama: Game of Drones
We talk to Wooga and the show's writers to find out how they're creating a gem-swapping saga
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