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Read More »Jagex announces trio of executive appointments
Fortnite cheat lawsuit hits snag as one of the defendants is a minor – Report
Reports from website TorrentFreak suggests that Epic was unaware they were perusing a minor, and the child's mother has written to the company in his defence
Read More »UK Gambling Commission issues blog post on loot boxes
Executive director Tim Miller lays out the reasoning behind the UK Commission's approach to loot boxes in games
Read More »Free-to-play PC revenue doubles in five years to $22 billion though in-game monetisation
New data from analytics firm SuperData shows that, despite the outcry, gamers are generating double the revenue they did in 2012 in the free-to-play PC market
Read More »Pokemon franchise hits over 300 million sales
Speaking to Famitsu, The Pokemon Company released the figure for game sales that doesn't include Pokemon Go
Read More »Playground Games make key hires for new open-world action/RPG project
Ex-Rockstar, Konami and Ninja Theory devs join the team at its new offices increasing its headcount up to 400 people
Read More »Rovio takes a drop in share price but games revenue is up
Shares in the Finnish developer are now down to $11 a share as costs for acquiring users rose by over 300 per cent
Read More »Budget extends UK Games Fund
Yesterday’s UK budget provided some welcome news for UK games studios, with confirmation of another £1m to extend the UK Games Fund until 2020. This falls a fair way short of the £23.7m proposed in the Independent Review of the Creative Industries just two months ago, however, although does at …
Read More »HoloLens patent breach leads to Microsoft lawsuit
Reports from Engadgent suggest the suit, filed by HoloTouch, claims technology in the mixed reality headset has been used while Microsoft 'willfully' knew it was patented
Read More »Gazillion Entertainment reportedly lays off all staff before Thanksgiving
The developer recently had a deal terminated with Disney for the Marvel Heroes MMO franchise and staff have taken to Twitter to speak about the mass layoffs
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