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A lawsuit that has been bubbling for six years has ended with Sony agreeing to refund some of the purchase price for a select few who bought PS3. ArsTechnica reports that Sony has reached an agreement with lawyers representing as many as 10m PS3 owners aggrieved by Sony decision in …

Team formed by ex-Lionhead devs had raised £59,000 of £250,000 goal before attracting anonymous backer

Firm has worked with studios such as The Chinese Room and Futurlab over the past year

Project described as Burnout studio’s ‘biggest game yet’ when unveiled at E3 2014

Players of upcoming South Park RPG The Fractured But Whole will have the choice of playing through the saga as a boy or girl. In [predecessor] Stick of Truth we got halfway through the game, and we had narratively come up with the big Girls’ Quest halfway through it. [The …

SoftBank to relinquish stake in Clash of Clans developer, now valued at $10.2bn

Another crowdfunded game has fallen before the final hurdle, leaving backers out of pocket. ReRoll was the creation of former Ubisoft Montreal devs Julien Cuny and Louis-Pierre Pharand’s studio Pixyl. It’s hook was that it was to use drones and existing data to recreate an accurate map of the entire …

Chinese games giant Tencent has just spent big to buy Clash of Clans developer Supercell. The $8.6bn purchase was confirmed by the studio itself following a report by the Wall Street Journal. For that sum, the media giant will purchase a 84.3 per cent state in the Finnish developer. The …

Kickstarted title Fabulous Beasts has had a change of name following trademark issues with Warner Bros. The latter claimed that the toys-to-life game’s title was too similar to that of the upcoming Harry Potter spin-off movie, ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’. Developer Sensible Object thus decided to rename …

Sensible Object’s toys-to-life title becomes Beasts of Balance