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Latest addition to Marmalade gives devs access to player behaviour data

Curve Digital has joined the line-up of games publishers looking to meet with indie developers at this week’s Interface event. Interface, which takes place on Thursday November 12th in London, is the UK’s interactive content marketplace, with private pitching, games showcase, funding advice and more. Curve Digital will be hosting …

It’s been a couple of rough months for GAME customers, to say the least. In June, the GAME-exclusive Batmobile Edition of Batman Arkham Knight was pulled from sales days before release. The retailer reimbursed affected gamers with a 20 voucher in lieu of their missing purchase, blaming unforeseen circumstances that …

Eagle-eyed gamers have noticed that a recent update to the Street Fighter V beta has altered the way some of the female characters are presented on screen. Eurogamer reports that prior to the update, Cammy’s arena entrance featured an absurdly gratuitous crotch close-up. R.Mika, meanwhile, used to slap her already …

Asda has turned on Black Friday, signalling its desire to move away from the sales event it helped popularise in the UK. The supermarket, which is owned by US giant Walmart, brought across the American day of discounting to its UK outlets in 2013, making it one of the first …

Eight slots available to showcase games to 75,000 visitors

Real Boxing dev offering marketing support, user acquisition and more

Prominent independent developer Mike Bithell has hired a chief operating officer to help run his company, Bithell Games. Announcing the hirevia his blog, the developer named formernews content director at the now-closed Joystiq Alexander Sliwinski as his new COO. It’s time to start some new things,” writes Bithell. It felt …

Migration to new OS continues, but Windows 7 still leads

Volume dev welcomes former Joystiq writer Alexander Sliwinski because “boy do I suck at operations”