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Thomas Was Alone dev Mike Bithell has said that we don’t have the data needed to accurately assess the health of the digital games market. One school of thinking is that the boom of digital indie games has now led to bust. This supposed phenomenon is called the ‘indiepocalypse’. Others …

Gaming social network and video-sharing platform Plays.tv has introduced a way for spectators to capture stream highlights while the content creator retians their ownership. The Chrome extension functions similarly to existing, though legally dubious, stream capture methods such as OddShot, which has attracted heavy criticism from streamers who feel their …

Digital retailer now stocks “games in development”, enables users to rollback to previous versions of games

Riot Games, creators of eSports frontrunner League of Legends, reportedly made $1.6bn off the game in 2015 according to SuperData Research. The figures, determined by the market research company from publisher and payment services digital point-of-sale data, make LoL the highest grossing digital game ahead of SuperCell’s Clash of Clans …

2K has signed a new exclusive agreement with wrestling company WWE to keep developing and publishing the WWE video games franchise. This multi-year partnership grants 2K worldwide rights to publish WWE titles on all major platforms and distribution channels. 2K’sWWE games have been developed by the publisher’sVisual Concepts studio and …

Ryan leads after 15 years at the Destiny developer

16-year-old creator creator of Way to the Woods joins the likes of Playtonic and Mouldy Toof

As many as 160 jobs have been cut as Gameloft shuts down eighth developer within a year

UK developer now recruiting for new Nottingham outfit, due to open in March

Crackdown and Forza developer Sumo Digital is opening a new studio in Nottingham. The new outfit will hold 50 staff and will be opened in March 2016. It joins Sumo’s other offices in Sheffield and India. Sumo’s COO Paul Porter will head up the new Nottingham branch, alongside his responsibilties …