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LittleBigPlanet studio Media Molecule recognized with YGD Hero Award, while Cambridge Regional College head of game development and Rizing Games creator Michael Warburton was honoured as YGD Mentor

‘At the end of the day, this is for the players, isn't it?’ says CEO Marcin Iwi?ski

Overwatch was the best-selling title at UK games retail last month. But June was severely down compared with the year before, with just 1.2m games sold – a drop of 33 per cent. 34m was generated through software sales, a huge decline of 40 per cent year-on-year. June 2015 was …

It’s almost as if investors didn’t do their research. After a long period of gains in the wake of Pokemon Go’s unprecedented success, Nintendo’s share price has fallen sharply after the platform holder issued a statement clarifying the game’s ownership and warning that it might not see the direct financial …

Despite all of the hype surrounding Niantic’s latest mobile title, Pokmon was neither the most downloaded free game nor the highest-grossing iPhone release for the week ending July 17th. According to mobile charts from Reflection, the free-to-play title was the third most-downloaded Phone game of that period, beaten only by …

Mashup of bike platforming series and ‘80s-flavoured Far Cry spin-off will be given to those who finish trial version (pun intended) with 15 faults or fewer

Undisclosed amount targeted at establishing relationships with firms and platforms including Disney, Tizen and MoboJoy

Warner Bros’ latest LEGO game is just one week from equalling the franchise’s record for top spots in the UK charts. LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens takes the No.1 spot for the fourth week running; one more week will see it level with LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, …

Stuntman, V-Rally and Driv3r studio formed in 1990 by Velez and artist Guillaume Dubail

FivePokmon games were in the UK Top 50 All-Formats charts this week. Quoting GfK data, retailers have told MCV that Nintendo was the No.2 UK games publisher last week (in terms of software value) – almost entirely driven by sales ofPokmon titles. GfK predicts Nintendo, 3DS and thePokmon series will …