A lot of product and a lot of marketing spend, will try to find potentially elusive eyeballs, in a compressed period of time.
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Kards, the promising WW2 collectible card game, has secured additional investment totalling $1.9m, taking its total to date to $5m.
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Sumo Group used its annual results to demonstrate that there’s more creativity in its studios than its ‘work-for-hire’ label suggests. Plus its early data shows development shouldn’t be a bottleneck in getting games to market in this pandemic-struck year
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Remake sells less than FFXV in opening week but longer-term signs are more promising given launch situation
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Report makes worrying reading for an industry reliant on broadly distributed external developers in order to hit deadlines
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What matters: the microphone, the new triggers plus the big implications of moving the light bar
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Platform holder will decide on date for event in coming weeks
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The cancellation of gaming’s biggest show will hit those who can least afford it the most
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