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Ubisoft exec Jade Raymond says that the games industry doesn’t necessarily need new consoles to create new ideas. Raymond, one of the minds behind the Assassin’s Creed series, hails the indie development scene for creating some of the market’s most exciting new concepts on less powerful platforms. Speaking about the …

Plants vs Zombies Adventures, a social take on PopCap’s casual tower defense franchise, has landed on Facebook in beta form. The developer reveals the beta is limited to just a small number of players at the moment, but is expected to open up later this spring. The adaptation will bring …

Battlefield 4 will arrive this autumn on PS3, 360 and PC. A Wii U version is not in the works. And although EA won’t officially announce it, it looks like the game is shaping up to be a next-gen launch title, too. The title was revealed at both GDC in …

Ever-increasing development budgets rear ugly head in latest Square Enix financials

After the disastrous collapse of 2009, global advertising revenue is again on the rise. That’s according to Worldwatch Institute’s Vital Signs Online service, which found that the 9.6 per cent drop suffer in 2009 in the aftermath of the global banking meltdown has been partially reversed thanks to a 3.3 …

Japanese telco SoftBank has announced its attention to significantly increase its stake in mobile gaming site GungHo. The company plans to spend 25bn ($265m) on over 73,000 shares, taking its overall share ownership from 33.6 per cent to 58.5 per cent. It will acquire the shares from Asian Groove, a …

Telecomms giant increases stake in company by 20 per cent to 58.5 per cent

Square Enix’s big console releases are not performing as desired in the West. As part of the publisher’s latest financial report, the company described sales of Tomb Raider, Hitman: Absolution and Sleeping Dogs as weak” in both North America and Europe. Specifically, Tomb Raider has shifted 3.4m copies in three …

SimCity has made its way back onto the Indian Origin store a couple of weeks after it was pulled by EA. SiimCity was released on Origin for Indian users at launch. Then a bunch of non-Indians found a loophole that let them circumvent Origin’s region restrictions to get the game …

Hyperkin’s RetroN 4 console reveal earlier this month turned out to be only part of the story. The company today unveiled the RetronN 5, which adds an additional cartridge slot for Japanese Famicom games. That’s in addition to the previously confirmed slots for NES, SNES, GBA, and Sega Genesis cartridges. …