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Japanese mobile giant DeNA has announced it is closing down its Transformers title Battle Tactics this May Posting on the publisher’s forums– as spotted by Seibertron–an admin revealed that Battle Tactics was to cease operations in the coming months. In addition, the admin – Nick – announced a timeline of …

Revenues for fiscal 2016 are expected to be 12.3 per cent lower than originally predicted, Nintendo has told investors. The company now believes it will achieve sales of 500bn for the period, which is down from the previous forecast of 570bn. That’s also less than 2015’s 549bn. Nintendo has also …

Higher community score in demo for Shadwen means a lower release price for the full title

Intel Developer Blog: We take a look at a hidden object game with an unusual control scheme

Announced last year, Project Astoria was designed to allow game devs to easily translate mobile code for PC

It appears that the PC release of Rise of the Tomb Raider had a strong debut. SuperData’s January digital games market report claims that Lara Croft’s latest adventure sold three times as many copies on PC as it did digitally on Xbox One in its first month. This obviously precludes …

Financial backing from companies including The Pokémon Company, Google and Nintendo now totals $25 million

Blood Bowl team to helm up PC and console title in absence of Sherlock Holmes dev

Capcom is bringing its three most recent mainline Resident Evil titles to next-gen consoles. Each will retail digitally and cost 15.99, with Resident Evil 6 leading the charge on March 29th. It will include all of the original’s costume DLC. Resident Evil 5 will follow in the summer and then …

The base pool for all future CS:GO Major tournaments has been raised from $250,000 to $1m thanks to Valve’s increased investment in eSports. Beginning with next month’s MLG Columbus event, every Valve-sponsored Major event will have the increased prize pool, offering $500,000 to the winners of each competition. There are …