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Strong week one downloads aren’t enough to guarantee long-term success for your mobile title – that’s the conclusion of a new analysis by SurveyMonkey Intelligence that looks into the launch and subsequent decline of Miitomo. The data compares the social game to King’s Candy Crush Jelly Saga and Supercell’s Clash …

Data from Nintendo’s first mobile app shows the importance of maintaining an active audience

Microsoft may have yet another surprise announcement up its sleeve for E3. It has already been suggested that the company will announce a new Xbox One Slim, an upgraded Xbox One and possibly even a streaming device (or two). Now is being suggested that Microsoft will also use E3 to …

$35/month Unity Plus tier aimed at "whose have learnt the art and craft of making games and want to take that to a commercial level"

The second season of the Rainbow Six Pro League is already underway, with a new $150,000 prize pool up for grabs across the four disciplines. Teams will be competing in one of four competitions, split between the Xbox One and PC, and European and North American regions. At the end …

Sean Murray confirms threats via Twitter as game is pushed back to August

Though Fable studio Lionhead has been closed, the iconic RPG franchise is not dead yet. As reported by IGN, the developer was secretly developing a free-to-play Fable digital card game called Fable Fortune. The firm had been working on this for 18 months before the studio was shut. Now that …

Swedish studio will control series futures, but a third of revenues for Payday 3 will go to 505 Games

Payday 2’s controversial microtransactions have been scrapped as part of a deal that sees developer Starbreeze assume complete control of the franchise. The Swedish studio has said that it has acquired the full rights to the game from 505, which itself acquired a financial stake in the developer in early …

The MD of UK developer Hello Games has revealed that he has received death threats following the confirmation that No Man’s Sky has been delayed until August. The game will now arrive in the UK on August 12th, two days after it rolls out in the rest of Europe on …