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League of Legends developer Riot has been forced to wade into a messy rights dispute involving the gameplay streaming of popular player Sanghyuk ‘Faker’ Lee. A Twitch broadcaster operating under the name SpectateFaker was issued with a DMCA copyright claim by rival streaming firm Azubu demanding that it stop streaming …

Cross-platform tools firm invites devs to visit its booth at San Francisco expo

Free-to-play 3DS puzzle game Pokemon has been downloaded over 1m times, Nintendo has said. The game represents somewhat of a new direction for Nintendo. Although not the company’s first F2P game, it does more closely mirror some of the practices more common to smartphone titles such as pay-to-play time limiting …

Artificial intelligence used in military situations coming to Unity 5

Tool makes it easier for studios to manage and synchronise game data

Warner Bros has announced that there will also be a smartphone version of upcoming fighter Mortal Kombat X. Mortal Kombat X: Mobile is due out in April, although it’s not clear if it will arrive on April 14th alongside the console and PC release. It’s a very different beast to …

Animation tool will introduce RunTime and LiveAction functions to UE4 editor

Owlchemy Labs working on first-person job simulator for Vive VR

UK firm signs Ivent to its growing indie publishing business

A Dead or Alive tournament organiser has imposed a new set of suggested restrictions on the character costumes it will permit to be used at its events. Free Step Dodge says the move is designed to stop the over-sexualised design of many of the series’ characters detract from the gameplay …