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Publisher undergoing 'ambitious cost reduction program'

New Maker Kits to be published over the coming weeks

Developer Wales Interactive has said that it was asked for a payment of $22,000 when it approached a YouTuber about possible coverage for its game. Ben Tester, the PR man for the Soul Axiom creators, said that the YouTuber in question had a few million subscribers”. He was told that …

Scotland is home to 97 studios, with over half developing for mobile and tablet

Epic has made 7,600 Infinity Blade assets free on the Unreal Engine marketplace. The content will ship in eight different packs that are available for any developer to access and use in their game. Most of the released assets come from the cancelled Infinity Blade: Dungeons. Assets available include audio …

Content represents $3m worth of investment in art and sound design

Sony has revealed that Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture was the best-selling game on PSN in Europe in August. The platform holder added that The Chinses Room’s title racked up one of the highest week-one sales totals of any PS4 digital-only title to date”. MCV revealed last month that had …

Game of War company Machine Zone’s trade secret lawsuit against Star Wars: Rising developer Kabam has been settled. The two firms issued a joint statement, in which the free-to-play companies say that they have ‘amicably’ solved their differences. It was announced at the end of August that Machine Zone was …

So far in 2015, French mobile publisher Gameloft has closed seven of its development studios. That’s according to a statement from the company’s CEO Michel Guillemot, which said that the development studios had becoming ‘unprofitable’. These closures are part of what Guillemot describes as ‘an ambitious cost reduction program’. It’s …

NPD data has shown yet another monthly sales victory for the PS4 in America. VentureBeat reports that Sony says that its console outsold Xbox One in August, just as it has done in every month bar one – April – throughout 2015. It also shifted the most software. We would …