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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 …

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 …

Neon Play CEO Oli Christie on the key aspects of game creation

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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 …

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 …

The biggest film of the season could make LEGO Lord of the Rings one of gaming’s best-sellers this Christmas. Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment is working closely with its film colleagues to cross-promote the game with the first instalment in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy. The buzz for The Hobbit: An Unexpected …

Every conflicting statement about Black Ops II on the cover of this week’s MCV is true. Strip away the spin, pride or expectations and the numbers still make it clear. This was the best performing game of the year. Some quarters wondered – or hoped, even – that this might …

Writing this year’s Call of Duty success headline was a complicated task. If we wanted to put a positive spin on things we could have gone with: ‘Call of Duty reclaims its crown as the biggest entertainment launch of the year’ or ‘Black Ops II is the fourth fastest selling …

Capcom may be looking within for its next crossover fighting series. CVG reports the company filed a trademark for ‘Fighters of Capcom’ earlier this month. The patent was registered under "computer game software", downloadable game software", "electronic game programs for mobile phones and smart phones", "downloadable game program for playing …