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Hungry Shark and Little Raiders dev is recruiting

The calls for Nintendo to release its games on smartphone may seem relentless, but it seems like the platform holder has other plans. Polar opposite plans, in fact. Kotaku reports that president Satoru Iwata told Nikkei that far from bringing Mario to iPhone, the company instead plans on bringing more …

Exec says leading mobile marketplace wouldn't be where it is today if not for games

From Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare to Skylanders and the LEGO series of video games, Reena Sood has worked with some of gaming’s most iconic and successful franchises. She tells MCV about her career Tell us about your career in games. I started in the industry in November 2007 …

Bandai Namco has for the first time shown off the visual differences between the upcoming next-gen version of Dark Souls II and its last-gen predecessor. Chief among the changes is the implementation of 60fps and 1080p. PC players will be used to this, but console gamers will see a big …

Publisher's chief creative officer says two hours is too long to introduce game mechanics and controls

King and Supercell investors Ben Holmes and Ken Lamb join board of directors

The complexity of modern video games continues to alienate too many potential players, EA’s chief creative officer Richard Hilleman has said. "Our games are actually still too hard to learn," Hilleman said at the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, as reported by GameSpot, when comedian Pete Holmes said that he’d …

Work-for-hire studio hires Dragon Age director and other genre veterans for new project

Lifetime sales for Skylanders surpass 240m as Activision Blizzard posts $4.4bn in revenue for last year