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The BBC’s plan for the video games market regenerates almost as often as The Doctor. Back in 2005 it closed its Multimedia division – after almost ten years of publishing titles – when the boxed games market crashed. In January 2010, MCV revealed that the firm would return in a …
Read More »Disruptor Beam secures $3.2m in funding
Game of Thrones Ascent studio will use funds to develop Star Trek Timelines and licence more IP
Read More »World of Warcraft subscriptions climb back over 10m
Subscriptions for MMO World of Warcraft have risen back over ten million following the release of the game’s fifth expansion Warlords of Draenor. The title sold 3.3m copies with its first 24 hours on sale and developer Blizzard claims the MMO has seen growth across all major regions. Subscriptions for …
Read More »Far Cry 4 complainers out themselves as pirates
Field of view slider unavailable in illegally downloaded versions of the game
Read More »Frontier starts offering Elite: Dangerous refunds over online furore
Some owners of Elite: Dangerous who are unhappy with the recent ditching of the game’s offline mode are being offered refunds. However, the only customers who are eligible are those who pre-ordered the final game and have therefore not yet played it. Anyone who has already played the alpha or …
Read More »TIGA calls for further tax relief and funding for game devs
Five-point proposal outlines Prototype Fund, incubators and subsidies for training and exports
Read More »Street Fighter II producer is ‘never’ going back to consoles
Yoshiki Okamoto has said that his future lies completely within the realm of mobile game development. The Street Fighter II creator left Capcom in the mid 2000s to found Forsaken Kingdom developer Game Republic. After that closed in 2011 he joined Mixi and subsequently created iOS hit Monster Strike. Not …
Read More »iOS banishes ‘Free’ icon from F2P game descriptions
Free-to-play games are no longer listed as being ‘Free’ on the Apple App Store. Instead, apps such as Candy Crush Saga, Angry Birds Stella and Clash of Clans now have a ‘Get’ button, below which is the line ‘In-App Purchases’. Beyond confirming to Re/Code that the change has been made …
Read More »EA: Virtual reality devs must fix motion sickness
CFO says publisher will back pioneering tech if big hurdle overcome
Read More »LGC 14: We are not the games media, says Yogscast
Yogscast says comparing it to the games media is a ‘category error’. Rich Keith, GM of the hit video network and speaking today at London Games Conference, says Yogscast and other video stars – such as PewDiePie – are not the games media. They are far more powerful than that …
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