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Group led by CEO of mobile publisher Gumi aims to turn Japanese capital into a global hub for nascent platform

Almost ten years ago, Boris Johnson said that computer games ‘rot the brain’ in this Telegraph editorial. But what a difference ten years make. Not only have we seen Boris playing Wii and with VR, now he’s giving the industry he once lambasted 1.2m to relaunch London Games Festival. To …

Skylake architecture offers graphical improvements by up to ’30 times’ on Windows 10, Microsoft claims

Boris Johnson has given the UK games industry 1.2m to launch Games London and develop a new London Games Festival. LGF will take place between April 1st to April 10th, and includes a Games Finance Market, a series of BFI talks, and it will also encompass EGX Rezzed and the …

The Wii U edition of Telltale’s Minecraft: Story Mode is being released this coming Thursday. The developer has announced that the first episode of the game – The Order of the Stone – will be coming out on Thursday, January 21st. This follows Mojang’s Minecraft finally launching on Nintendo’s home …

Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture collects prize, with Her Story and Sunless Sea also shortlisted

The long-awaited debut on Nintendo on smartphones will have a dramatic effect on Nintendo’s profit, president Tatsumi Kimishima has said. Its debut smartphone title Miitomo also remains on track for March, the exec had asserted. The first fruits of Nintendo’s partnership with Japanese mobile publisher DeNA had been due out …

A developer jailed in Iran on charges of spying has been let free after four years. 32-year-old Iranian-American Amir Hekmati was originally arrested by authorities in the Middle-Eastern country over his work on a language-teaching game produced by Kuma Reality. Hekmati was initially subscribed the penalty of death in 2012, …

IGDA Finland chairman Jyri Partanen to head up local base of development network as MD

The US Supreme Court will now decide whether Microsoft will face a class-action lawsuit over allegations that the Xbox 360 had a disc-scratching fault. The Xbox 360 had its fair share of technical problems, not least of which was the infamous Red Ring of Death – a fault that ultimately …