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Having declined for the first time ever in the first quarter of the year, Apple’s smartphone has repeated the feat in the company’s following quarter. 40.4m iPhone were sold in Apple’s Q3, down 15 per cent, although this was slightly ahead of some expectations. The company expects another decline in …

Charity outing Help: The Game, which gathers 12 original titles from some of Europe’s biggest studios, is now available. The bundle, published by Sega, is available on Steam for 9.99. The games were created in six days during a worldwide game jam. All profits are being donated to charity War …

ESL One is heading to the Genting Resort in Malaysia for a $250,000 Dota 2 tournament. The competition will take place between January 6th and 8th 2017 in the mountaintop resort that is just an hour away from Kuala Lumpur. Eight of the best Dota 2 teams in the world …

The Professor Layton series has a new protagonist. Gematsu reports that developer Level-5 has announced Lady Layton: The Conspiracy of King Millionaire Ariadne, which is due out on 3DS and smartphones in Japan in early 2017. Catriel Layton is the daughter of Professor Layton and is partial to puzzle solving …

As we head towards the 10th Games Media Awards on October 11th, MCV looks back on some of the key highlights. Here we speak to industry veteran Colin Campbell, who picked up the award for Games Media Legend in 2011… How did you first get into the games media?I answered …

Microsoft’s plan to close off the open PC market will manifest itself in a slow and gradual attack on Steam, Epic co-founder Tim Sweeney believes. Sweeney already stands as the most outspoken critic of Windows 10 and Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform. Now PC Gamer reports that he has told Edge …

UE Issues will help devs keep track of Epic Games’ progress in fixing and improving its award-winning engine

The International eSports Federation (IeSF) has partnered with Alibaba Sports Group to boost eSports in China and across the world. Exact details on what the two companies will be doing are yet to be announced, however the partnership announcement did mention three key goals the two hope to achieve. The …

Former PlayStation VP of third-party relations Adam Boyes has joined Killer Instinct developer Iron Galaxy as the studio’s new CEO. Boyes announced that he was leaving Sony after four yearsearlier this month, saying at the time that he would be looking to make a return to independent development. In his …

Nintendo’s latest quarterly reports have shown a $233m loss, with the bottom finally dropping out of the Wii U market. Wii U hardware sales fell by over 50 per cent for the three months ending June to just 220 units while 3DS sales fell by seven per cent to 940k. …