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According to the Association for the Nordic Game Industry (ANGI), Sweden is the biggest country for games in the Nordic region, comprising 36 per cent of games retail sales, in terms of both volume and value. Compared to 2013, Sweden’s games market declined slightly last year, seeing retail sales revenue …

The brakes have been put on InvaderGames’ Resident Evil 2 Reborn. The fan-made project was hoping to revitalise the 1998 survival horror title, but plans were scuppered when Capcom itself announced an official remake of the game last week. The publisher contacted InvaderGames prior to the announcement to ask that …

The increasing number of players opting for the smartphone and tablet versions of Hearthstone is resulting in lost revenue for Blizzard. It was revealed last month that the game’s mobile revenues have spiked since the launch of the iPhone and Android earlier this year. However, as pointed out in a …

New features for iClone 6 Animation Pipeline, Character Creator and Live Motion Capture System showcased at last week’s tech fest

We catch up with the studio's head of middleware to discuss the tech's biggest ever update

Children’s publisher Egmont is to combine the digital with the old-fashioned in a new magazine. Download is the latest in the ‘AllAbout’ series, and will report on the biggest digital products and companies in the games industry for kids aged between six and 12. This apparently includes everything from toys-to-life, …

Square Enix is no longer the publisher of Call of Duty in Japan. This year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will be published by Sony on PlayStation. For Xbox, Activision will serve as publisher and Microsoft and distributor, according to Siliconera. Sony has also published previous Activision titles in …

Intel Developer Blog: A look at a collection of tools that can help you to build apps for multiple platforms without sacrificing native performance

Publisher Bethesda has been promoting its mobile title Fallout Shelter over dating app Tinder. As spotted by a reader of Kotaku,the firm has set up a dating profile for its series mascot, the Vault Boy. According to his bio, Vault Boy is 25 and likes Nuka Cola, putting out fires, …

Studio behind Star Citizen’s FPS module cuts six members of staff