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Devs can choose to automatically adjust server use according to player and game session count, plus other metrics

Ian Goodall from recruitment expert Aardvark Swift offers advice for devs aiming to set themselves up as a contractor

Deciding what marketing stunts to cover or not to cover can be somewhat difficult. Ultimately, as a trade site, MCV’s in the business of drawing attention to the marketing activities of our community, the UK games business But we also have to serve our readers. So bloke from some boy …

Paradox Interactive is celebrating the first birthday of city builder Cities: Skylines by announcing a highly impressive sales milestone. The game has in its first year sold over 2m units worldwide. It’s the fastest selling game the company has ever released. It previously sold 250k units on its first day, …

EA’s Plants vs Zombies series is branching out into a third genre. Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes follows the template laid down by other card battlers by allowing players to amass a team of heroes and fending off against rival decks. Old characters will also be joined by a new cast. …

Polish studio aiming for “two-fold” expansion of dev team, with four new teams

All 4 Games' head Colin MacDonald offers advise to those flying to San Francisco next week

Rune Story publisher appoints former Kabam exec as US CEO

A defiant ESA, the organiser of E3, says the LA expo is ‘essential and critical’ to the games industry. Its comments come after Activision joined EA in not renewing its E3 booth for 2016. The two businesses follow the likes of Sega, Bandai Namco and Disney in no-longer booking space …

“Microsoft has no right to impose its certification regime on software obtained outside of its store”