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Tagplay’s latest iOS release Hotel Vegas won’t be available to consumers in the UK. And that’s because one of its many features is the inclusion of our very own Prince Harry. In the nude. Why, you might ask? Back in August the second in line to the British throne was …
Read More »Gree apologises for its handling of OpenFeint scrappage
Gree has said it is sorry for its handling of the closure of OpenFeint and for putting developers in what it admitted was a tough situation. Speaking toPocketGamer, SVP of marketing and developer relations Eros Resmini said the firm had originally planned to give developers a full year to mirgrate …
Read More »How did 2K Games buck the 2012 slump?
2K is enjoying a golden period on the back of Borderlands 2, NBA 2K13 and XCom: Enemy Unknown. The publisher’s president Christoph Hartmann discusses its recent success, next year’s BioShock Infinite and the future of consoles… In a tough year for games, 2K?appears to have bucked the trend. What’s been …
Read More »UPDATED: Eurocom confirms job losses, blames steep console decline
UK developer Eurocom is to announce wide-ranging redundancies” today, a report has claimed. Games Industry believes that the studio is not set to close, though hasn’t got a figure on the exact number of losses. An announcement is expected shortly. Derby-based Eurocom is due to celebrate its 25th birthday next …
Read More »Crytek’s Warface hits 5m registered users
Free-to-play FPS Warface is seemingly doing the business for Crytek in Russia. The studio has announced that the game has now reached 5m registered players in the territory. The news comes in the same week as the shooter received the Best Online Game accolade in Russia’s Runet Awards. Reaching the …
Read More »OPINION: Kickstarter is making me feel Dizzy
I feel like I’ve been here before recently. And I still feel uneasy about it. The Oliver twins are important figures in the history of UK games development and I sincerely wish them the best in their new Dizzy Returns Kickstarter. They’re after a total of 350k for a reboot …
Read More »Evolution of a mobile game: The development process
Neon Play CEO Oli Christie on the key aspects of game creation
Read More »What doesn’t kill you…
Fluffy Logic's CEO ponders the challenges that face start-up studios
Read More »HMV to host official Wii U midnight launch
The official midnight opening for next week’s Wii U launch will be held at the flagship Oxford Street store of entertainment retailer HMV. Following reports of high demand for the new console, HMV has even secured extra stock for the launch so that customers will be able to purchase Wii …
Read More »Future reports annual profit climb
Publisher and media group Future has reported normalised operating profit of 6.9m for the year ending September 30th. That’s a 68 per cent year-on-year increase. Group revenues were down three per cent, although Future attributes that to the restructure of tis US business. Net debt comes in at a lower …
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