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Riot has given one of League of Legends’ heroes a visual makeover, and its boards are alight with protests from fans. As the game’s roster evolves rapidly, it is quite normal for Riot to revisit existing Heroes and give them a rejig to keep them thematically consistent and competitive in …

In 2012, Geraldo Nascimento left his native Portugal to move to the UK in order to develop games. A life-long gamer, Nascimento started doing software consultancy work during his Master’s degree in computer science at the University of Lisbon, and realised he wanted to make games. But he says going …

They might not be as big as Call of Duty or FIFA, but cult Japanese franchises boast a highly passionate audience with a fondness for merchandise. MCV heads East to check out the biggest imports Japan is the land where video games matured. Now, three decades after the release of …

Lithuaninan developer Nordcurrent has revealed that its mobile title Cooking Fever has been downloaded over 50 million times. The title launched last August and is available on both iOS and Android. At the time of writing, Cooking Fever ranks at No.26 in the UK iPhone games chart and at 28th …

Yosuke Matsuda explains why publishers cannot expect too much from a brand new franchise

New jobs created at 3D visualisation studio, while eight Eutechnyx staff have entered consultation

London Venture Partners backs mobile start-up

One of the biggest eSports organisations has teamed up with two drugs testing bodies to help address the growing concern about performance enhancing drugs. eSports companies queued up earlier this week to express their concern about the problem, which came to light following an interview with former Cloud9 player Kory …

Bethesda’s Fallout Shelter was proved rather fruitful for the publisher. The game was globally the fourth best-selling iOS game in June, according to app analytics firm App Annie. But it was King’s AlphaBetty Saga that claimed the top spot. Fallout Shelter was announced on-stage at Betheda’s conference at this year’s …

The world’s biggest social network is to play host to the world’s most popular Italian plumber. In celebration of the upcoming launch of Super Mario Maker, Nintendo is to take the DIY Mario title to Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on July 28th and 29th. The social network holds …