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Batman: Arkham Knight studio seeking lead and senior network programmers

Nintendo has announced that the next wave of Animal Crossing Amiibo figures will be coming to stores in UK very early into 2016. Via the Animal Crossing Twitter account (below), the platform holder revealed that the toys-to-life figures would be launching on Friday, January 29th. Four figures have been confirmed …

Online portal gives devs access to integrations for GitHub, Photon, Appuri and more

Until now the ship browser tool within MMO title EVE Online has been known as the ‘Interbus Ship Identification System’. The acronym for which is very unfortunate. That’s all changed, however, with players recently discovering that an update to the game has given the ISIS screen a new name – …

Jae Chan Shin, CEO of mobile game developer InnoSpark, shares key insights into this lucrative

Chinese strategy game storms social network with more than 50m players

Capcom has given its upcoming HD remaster of 2003 survival horror title a release date. The publisher announced via its Capcom Unity blog that Resident Evil 0 HD will be hitting shelves on January 22nd in the UK. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given that the Resident …

Geoff Keighley’s The Game Awards drew in a crowd of no less than 2.3 million people. Speaking to Polygon, Keighley said that the success of this year’s show means that the likelihood of them returning next year is high. The 2015 Game Awards brought in 15 per cent more viewers …

Square Enix’s isometric puzzle platformer Lara Croft Go has been named by Apple as the best iPhone game of 2015. Note that the award has nothing to do with commercial performance – it’s the game Apple’s games editorial team has chosen as their favourite. Bethesda’s Fallout Shelter and 1Button’s Mr …

Lara Croft GO named best iOS game, but Ellen Degeneres and Mojang lead sales in 2015