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Consumers purchasing PC title Hadean Landshave the option of shelling out 27 for a digital certificate. As reported by Kotaku, this digital piece of paper – available as either a PDF or JPG and viewable below – asks consumers to promise to finish the notoriously tough text adventure game without …
Read More »The marketer’s guide to mobile ad formats
AppLovin's Mark Rosner offers devs a breakdown of the different ways to advertise your game on mobile
Read More »Criterion’s vehicle game put on hold for Star Wars
In 2014 Criterion revealed that it was working on an extreme sports vehicle title with more than a hint of Burnout about it. Now it’s not clear whether we’ll ever see that game. EA has told GameSpot that folk should forget about any previous projects mentioned by the UK studio. …
Read More »Develop Awards 2016: The Finalists – New IP: Mobile
Rounding up the hottest new names in mobile who will be competing for the award in July
Read More »Sony could owe early PS3 owners some money
A lawsuit that has been bubbling for six years has ended with Sony agreeing to refund some of the purchase price for a select few who bought PS3. ArsTechnica reports that Sony has reached an agreement with lawyers representing as many as 10m PS3 owners aggrieved by Sony decision in …
Read More »Fable Fortune Kickstarter axed, but development will continue
The crowdfunding push for free-to-play card game Fable Fortune has been cancelled. But the game, from former Lionhead developers Flaming Fowl Studios, will still see the light of day. In a post on the Fable Fortune’s Kickstarter page announcing the cancelation, the studio said that it had secured additional development …
Read More »Criterion cancels extreme sports title as it shifts focus to Star Wars
Project described as Burnout studio’s ‘biggest game yet’ when unveiled at E3 2014
Read More »South Park: The Fractured But Whole will offer female character option
Players of upcoming South Park RPG The Fractured But Whole will have the choice of playing through the saga as a boy or girl. In [predecessor] Stick of Truth we got halfway through the game, and we had narratively come up with the big Girls’ Quest halfway through it. [The …
Read More »Tencent acquiring Supercell in $8.6bn deal
SoftBank to relinquish stake in Clash of Clans developer, now valued at $10.2bn
Read More »Crowdfunded survival game ReRoll cancelled
Another crowdfunded game has fallen before the final hurdle, leaving backers out of pocket. ReRoll was the creation of former Ubisoft Montreal devs Julien Cuny and Louis-Pierre Pharand’s studio Pixyl. It’s hook was that it was to use drones and existing data to recreate an accurate map of the entire …
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