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Co-founder and CEO Neil Young has left his role at mobile games developer Ngmoco, owner DeNA has announced. Former head of studios Clive Downie has been appointed as the new CEO. Downie previously spent over 15 years at EA where he reached the positions of VP of marketing. Fellow co-founder …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed III breaks Ubisoft’s pre-order records
Upcoming historical action romp Assassin’s Creed III has become the most pre-ordered game in Ubisoft history. The game, due out next week on October Wednesday 31st, has already doubled the pre-order levels of its predecessor Assassin’s Creed Revelations. Assassin’s Creed III is one of the most anticipated games of the …
Read More »How the metrics buried in today’s games will shape the games of tomorrow
When a gamer sits down to play a game like Sleeping Dogs it’s simply a slice of fun. But for a small team in Square Enix’s Wimbledon office it’s a science experiment. That’s because Sleeping Dogs is one example of a game that uses anonymous metrics to learn from how …
Read More »Phil Harrison to give first public address as Xbox exec at LGC
Xbox exec joins speakers from Twitter, Google, EA, Sega and Disney attending next month's conference
Read More »SimCity release date pushed back to March
EA has announced that the reboot to its SimCity franchise will arrive on 8th March, 2013. This is a slight delay from the February release window that had been announced earlier. Unlike the delays for Medal of Honor: Warfighter and Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which are for India only, …
Read More »GAME OF THE DAY: The Unfinished Swan
We’re going to be clear about this from the off – not everyone is going to like The Unfinished Swan. You can finish the game in one sitting, or around two hours. Although that’s at the expense of exploration, of course. And the plot is, how shall we say, slightly …
Read More »EA dates its new SimCity
The latest reinvention of the SimCity franchise has been given a release date on PC and Mac. SimCity, as EA is calling it, will be released on March 8th. The game is powered by GlassBox which EA describes as the most complex simulation engine in its class”. SimCity will engage …
Read More »Disney: It’s the perfect time for a game movie
Wreck-It Ralph should clean up at the Box Office as games become increasingly mainstream, says Disney. The movie tells of a villain from a fictional 8-bit arcade game trying to find a new role as a good guy in more modern games such as sci-fi FPS Hero’s Duty and Mario …
Read More »Nintendo reports $350m loss as finances improve
Sales of Nintendo 3DS hardware and software weaker than expected in overseas markets
Read More »Zynga kills 13 games, proposes closure of UK and Japan offices
Social games giant streamlining operations to 'make Zynga into an internet treasure'
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