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The latest entry in Disney’s Infinity toys-to-life series will be hitting stores in late August. To be precise, Disney Infinity 3.0 has been announced for a August 28th release. Disney Infinity 3.0’s headline feature is the addition of new Star Wars characters who join the already sizeable line-up of Disney …
Read More »Fire Emblem clings on for a second top spot in Japan as Persona 4: Dancing All Night slips
The latest Fire Emblem title for 3DS has remained at the number spot in Japan, with returning Top Ten entry Splatoon seeing resilient sales figures. Fire Emblem Fates’ two SKUs – White Kingdom and Black Kingdom – easily spot to the top of the retail charts the week previous, shifting …
Read More »PewDiePie: Let’s talk about money
YouTube superstar PewDiePie has responded to critics of his salary. It was revealed yesterday that the Swedish digital powerhouse’s production company PewDiePie Productions made $7.44m in 2014. And as a guy who lives out his life on the internet, he’s had to take a lot of abuse as a result. …
Read More »Xbox Live and PSN hacker gets suspended sentence, escapes prison
One of the key people behind the DDoS attacks on Xbox Live and PSN last December has escaped jail. The Daily Dot reports that 17 year-old Julius ‘Zeekill’ Kivimakihas received a two year suspended sentence from a Finnish court. He was found guilty of data breaches, felony payment fraud and …
Read More »Develop: Brighton 2015 – Everything you need to know
We round up everything you need to know about this year’s conference, including the hottest sessions and networking events
Read More »Marmalade receives $2m in funding
UK firm plans to expand its offerings and global reach
Read More »Dragon Quest ‘does a Minecraft’ with Builders spin-off
It’s pretty easy to surmise what game may have proved the inspiration for the latest Dragon Quest title. More or less nothing is known about the freshly revealed Dragon Quest Builders aside from what can be found on the Japanese website. Kotaku reports that the block building RPG” will allow …
Read More »Who will be named Publishing Hero at the Develop Awards next week?
Just one week remains until the Develop Awards, which honours the best companies that the game development sector has to offer. We will also find out which firm our panel of judges has deemed the best publisher with eight companies vying for this prize. 505 Games, Chillingo, Curve, Deep Silver, …
Read More »HTML5 developer Wozlla raises $2m
Studio to expand teams and release its own HTML5 dev tools
Read More »Warner’s Samantha Ryan is the new head of EA Mobile
EA has appointed recent recruit Samantha Ryan as the new head of its EA Mobile division. Ryan joined the publisher in March 2015 as senior VP and group GM. But following the recentdeparture of long-time EA servant Frank Gibeauin May, she has named be named as his replacement. Prior to …
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