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Publisher Konami has reported a 147 per cent increase in net profit for the year ending March. The numbers don’t quite fit the wider narrative of a company in decline, what with the recent fallout with Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and the cancellation of Silent Hills – both of …

Right now, most major publishers are chasing the booming indie market and Microsoft is no different with its ID@Xbox programme. The firm is coming off a busy few months. Earlier this year at GDC it announced that it was planning on having games from the scheme appear on both Xbox …

Rovio has bought mobile sensation Angry Birds to virtual reality for the first time. The company this weekend unveiled Angry Birds VR for Samsung’s already available Gear VR. VR Focus reports that the game has been jointly developed by Rovio and Brazil’s Imgnation Studios. Road to VR adds that the …

Indie developer Studio Wildcard has announced an open-world dinosaur survival game for next-gen consoles and PC. Called Ark: Survival Evolved, the game is built using Unreal Engine 4 and focuses around multiplayer co-op and a persistent ecosystem. Crafting, hunting, shelter building, tech developing and harvesting seem very much the order …

Reports online suggest that Swedish media organisation Modern Times Group (MTG) has acquired Germany’s Turtle Entertainment, owner of the Electronic Sports League (ESL). The Daily Dot reports that the claims stem from IT news channel Golem.de. The value of the deal is not known and while ESL has so far …

Three Fields Entertainment instead teases “new twist on a sports game”

Bandai Namco owned D3 Publisher has announced that its subsidiary D3Publisher of America is rebranding and shifting focus to digital and mobile. The Marvel Puzzle Quest and Adventure Time Card Wars publisher will from this point be known as D3 Go! As many of our long-term fans and followers may …

Ubisoft responds to last year’s backlash, new Assassin’s Creed title due to be unveiled today

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night raises $1m in first day

The surreal first-person adventure from some of the creative minds behind BioShock has been temporarily canned. The Black Glove, a new title from Day For Night Games, was being developed by a team offormer Irrational Games staff. The studio set up aKickstarter campaignto fund the title, but it wasunsuccessful. We’ve …