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'When we've finished our vertical slice preproduction build, we do one for a week then. We do another at the end, which is focused on mining ideas for DLC.'

Chinese games firm Seasun stumps up cash for newly-founded mobile developer

Mobile studio acquired location in 2012 for $228 million, which could now be worth more than half a billion dollars

Hong Kong-based mobile games company Fifth Journey has signed partnerships with Universal Pictures, Lionsgate and MGM. These deals will see the firm produce mobile games, interactive entertainment and VR titles for properties from the film studios for a global market, specifically Asia. Fifth Journey was founded by former Universal, Gameloft …

Zak McClendon also worked on The Bureau: XCOM Declassified and Rock Band 4 during stints at 2K and Harmonix

The $5.9bn deal that sees Activision take ownership of Candy Crush creator King has been completed. The acquisition was first unveiled back in November. King CEO Riccardo Zacconi, CCO Sebastian Knutsson and COO Stephane Kurgan remain in place, with the company continuing to operate as an independent unit of Activision …

The mobile studio's senior concept artist Nana Li explains why the London team employs this unusual training strategy

As we countdown to the MCV Awards 2016, which takes place in London on March 3rd, we profile each of the finalists for the Sales Team category Activision Delivered new top ten titles as well as continuing to drive strong all year round sales with franchises like Skylanders, World of …

Microsoft has announced that the prize pool for its Halo World Championship now stands at a cool $2.5 million. The platform holder revealed this via Xbox Wire, and also named the 16 US and Canadian teams set for the final. Venture Beat – citing tracking site eSports Earnings – reports …

Consumers pre-ordering Samsung’s new Galaxy S7 smartphone will be receiving its Gear VR headset free of charge. This news comes by way of Ars Technica, which says that the Korean tech giant announced the offer at Mobile World Congress. Pre-orders open today (Tuesday, February 23rd), and consumers have until March …