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Four appears to be the magic number for Sony’s Naughty Dog studio. It made four Crash Bandicoot games on the first PlayStation, before walking away from the smash hit series. It created four Jak and Daxter titles on PS2, and then waved goodbye to those characters. And now it says …

Clash of Clans creator Supercell has another hit on its hands. A Newzoo report that its latest release Clash Royale was the highest grossing smartphone game in the world in March, with revenues of $80m, putting the app on track to becoming a billion dollar franchise. Note that the $80m …

Informing players of their mistakes dropped recurrence by 50 per cent, while providing detailed evidence of misdeeds saw a 70 per cent decline

A whopping 1,600 piece LEGO Minecraft set is hitting stores this summer. FamilyGamerTV has revealed that the huge Village set is incoming this June. This follows LEGO unveiling the already-large Minecraft Fortress as New York Toy Fair earlier this year. Village comes with a number of MInecraft figures, including Steve, …

The game heads of two of the UK’s largest retailers have joined MCV’s Retail Advisory Board. Amazon’s software and video games category leader Russell Jones (pictured, right) has come on board, alongside Tesco senior buying manager Alison Mair (pictured, far right). Mair replaces buying manager Jon Hayes, who moved to …

From brick walls to plaster ceilings, no material is safe in Rainbow Six Siege. Lucas Granito, senior tech artist at Ubisoft Montreal, tells Develop how the studio built up the shooter’s environments – so players could tear them right back down

Retailer GAME expects its next Insomnia festival – which will include the GAMEFest expo – to be the UK’s most popular gaming event this year. The firm targets a record number of attendees over the August Bank Holiday weekend, and says it will be investing heavily to ensure it hits …

Retail’s hope of integrating the digital games market into its pre-owned model looks less likely than ever. There have been various effort and legal attempts to enforce the allowed trade-in and resale of digital games over the years, but GameSpot reports that GameStop COO Tony Bartel has said at the …

Mixed-reality developer focused on HoloLens is the latest venture from John Howard and fellow Microsoft veteran Sébastien Motte

The workaround that lets Oculus Rift games run on HTC Vive may be in danger. Yesterday it emerged that a third party program released on Github allows any Oculus Rift title to be played on the HTC Vive headset. The first release allows titles such as Lucky’s Tale and Dreamdeck …