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EA Mobile has kicked off a new promotion that offers users bonus content for some of its popular iOS freemium titles. The offer applies on Monopoly Hotels, The Sims FreePlay, Theme Park, World Series of Poker and Bejeweled Blitz! Here’s what bonus content each game offers: Monopoly Hotels: 50 Gold …
Read More »Out now: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Darksiders 2, Sleeping Dogs
This month’s three big releases are in stores now, and despite a spate of festivals and bank holidays,there haven’t been significant delays. The console versions of Square Enix’s open-world romp Sleeping Dogs, which was set for release on 17th August, reached retailers on time, but the PC version was delayed …
Read More »UPDATED: PopCap redundancies confirmed at Seattle and Dublin studios
PopCap has confirmed recent rumours, reporting over 50 employees at its HQ in Seattle and an unspecified number of staff in the company’s Dublin studio have been laid off. The developer’s co-founder John Vechey posted on PopCap’s blog earlier today explaining that while having to deal with this kind of …
Read More »Another open-world zombie game is hungry for gamer’s brains
Yet another open-world zombie title is on the way. It’s called State of Decay and it’s being made by Undead Labs. It was previously announced in 2011 as an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive going by the name of Class 3. Its makers describe it as an ambitious zombie-survival open world …
Read More »Unity to support Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
Unite 12: Popular engine to offer developers deployment to forthcoming Microsoft platforms
Read More »EA: High Street games retail to become extinct within a decade
A leading EA executive has predicted the death of High Street games retail within ten years. "We know that packaged goods work today, and the majority of our current revenue comes from that," EA Games’ executive VP Patrick Soderlund told CVG. "That’s still a viable business model. But in the …
Read More »Report: Nintendo Power magazine shutting down
Nintendo Power’s near 25-year run is apparently coming to an end. A report out of Ars Technica states that Future Publishing is planning to stop production of the magazine. The report was seemingly confirmed hours later by Nintendo Power senior editor Chris Hoffman sending out Twitter posts on how he …
Read More »Xaitment brings AI tech to the classroom
Partnership with Studica offers discounts to aspiring developers currently in education
Read More »Nintendo holding Wii U press event next month
Nintendo has announced it will host a Wii U press event in New York City next month. The invite-only function takes place on September 13th and will be presented by Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. Nintendo states the event promises to reveal more about how the Wii U will …
Read More »Consumers find new ideas ‘off-putting’
Sequels can be just as innovative as new IP, says Assassin's Creed 3 dev Alex Hutchinson
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