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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”

Free-to-play outlet founded a new Games arm last year

PlayStation is holding a job fair for Lionhead employees on Monday. The Xbox-owned studio is facing closure following the cancellation of its game, Fable Legends, earlier this week. PlayStation operates a number of UK outfits, including Media Molecule, Guerrilla Cambridge and London Studios, all of which are working on PS4 …

Toki Tori developer Two Tribes has said that it is calling time on game development following the release of its next title Rive. The studio will remain operational and continue to support its existing games, but it has no plans to release any further games. In a long statement, the …

Recruitment event to be held on Monday, March 14th in Guildford