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Anyone who doubts the transition from physical to digital need only look to EA’s most recent financials for evidence. Of the $693m revenue generated by EA in the last quarter, $532m came from digital – which is up ten per cent year-on-year. The bulk of it came from digital mobile …

Online collaboration platform planning international expansion and new products

Mobile firm gearing up for release of Vive headset

Everyone wanted Yooka-Laylee. The game is what some publishers have coined an ‘indie-A’. That’s an indie title that has more in common with triple-A blockbusters than low-budget, lower-fi efforts. (We used to call them ‘B-grade’ titles, but the industry loves a new label). Games like Yooka-Laylee don’t come around very …

Pixel Squad CEO Will Mallouk talks about funding, monetising and updating your game via the cloud

Former Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo on why other publishers have struggled to replicate the success of World of Warcraft

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Fergal Gara, the VP and MD of Sony Computer Entertainment UK, has resigned. Sony says he has left to pursue a new professional venture”. SCEE’s GM of Nordics, East & South East Europe Warwick Light will replace him, with his tenure to start on August 10th. Gara will remain at …

A Gaijin Entertainment gameplay producer has been suspended after abusing his DMCA powers to wrongfully bringing the channel of a leading Russian YouTuber to a halt. Polygon reports that Pavel Kulikov issued multiple Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims against a YouTube channel owned by Kirill ‘alconafter’ Fyodorov, who has in …

Hi-Rez Studios COO Todd Harris on making tough decisions and learning from failure