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A shock announcement from November 2015 was that Activision Blizzard is to acquire mobile company King.com. And even more eye-opening was that the Call of Duty publisher is spending $5.9bn to buy the Candy Crush maker. Just to put that into perspective: Disney purchased the Star Wars franchise from LucasFilm …
Read More »Kimishima admits Nintendo could ditch Quality of Life initiative
Nintendo has for the first time admitted that it may abandon Satoru Iwata’s Quality of Life roadmap. Kotaku reports on a Asahi story revealing that Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima has told investors: It’s not yet at the level of a Nintendo product. If we can release it, we’ll release it. …
Read More »Dan Dawkins takes global editor in chief role at Gamesradar+
Daniel Dawkins has been named the global editor in chief of Gamesradar+. Dawkins was previously the games group editor in chief for the UK. He replaces Sophia Tong, who has taken a new role at Future. She is working on ‘creative brand strategy and business development’ within the global revenue …
Read More »Find out if you are paid enough in this week’s MCV
In this week’s issue, we unveil the results of our annual Salary Survey. This year over 1,000 people took part – including more than 650 from the UK – making it our most successful salary survey yet. The survey shows that UK games workers earn an average of 29.000 across …
Read More »Feral Interactive cancels Batman Arkham Knight for Linux and Mac
Developer to issue refunds for ports of Rocksteady’s troubled superhero swansong
Read More »GameStop: ‘We’re not trying to be a publisher’
EA, Activision and Ubisoft have nothing to fear from GameStop’s decision to publish a video game, the retailer says. The company last week signed Song of the Deep, a new game from Resistance, Ratchet and Clank and Sunset Overdrive developer Insomniac. It will release the 2D underwater adventure title in …
Read More »The Typeface Trap: Protecting your game from font-related lawsuits
Stephen Edwards, partner at legal firm Reed Smith, warns developers about the danger of copying other brands' fonts
Read More »Taylor Swift and Glu team up for mobile title
Glu Mobile has a celebrity title in the works featuring popular songstress Taylor Swift. Buoyed by its success with Kim Kardashian, Glu seems especially enamoured with Swift’s social media presence – which apparently total over 227m. As it did with Kardashian, Glu’s deal will see the title promoted directly to …
Read More »How did the UK’s PC digital market do in 2015?
In April last year, Russian games veteran Sergey Galvonkin set up Steam Spy. Though not completely accurate, it analyses profile data to better understand how games are selling – and when – on PC download service Steam. Steam Spy has provided MCV with UK figures for between April and the …
Read More »Take-Two beats expectations despite weak release schedule
Take-Two has beaten its revenue and profit expectations and raised its full year projections, despite a thin release slate. The firm generated $486.8 million during its third quarter, a sizeable drop compared with the $954 million the firm made the year before. However, the previous year was bolstered by the …
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