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Streaming video service Twitch continues to boom, with monthly viewer numbers reaching 100m in 2014. All of which came from 1.5 unique broadcasters. Those numbers are up from 45m monthlies and 90k broadcasters in 2013. Viewers throughout 2014 watched 16bn minutes of footage, with a peak of 1m concurrent viewers …

Mashiro Sakurai says he doubts he'll be able to continue making games under current working conditions

Two of May’s biggest films are getting the LEGO game treatment. Warner Bros has announced both LEGO Jurassic World and LEGO Marvel’s Avengers, which will tie in with the release of Jurassic World and Avengers: Age of Ultron. The Jurassic Park title will follow the plot of not only the …

The producer of Revelations 2 has said he is confident that the team working on Resident Evil 7 will produce something good enough to dispel the nightmares of Resident Evil 6. "Unfortunately we work on Revelations and that’s kind of it. We don’t really have a window into whatever else …

The Lumines series has swapped ownership and is on track for a new entry on iOS. Gematsu reports that Mobcast and Enhance Games have acquired both the Lumines and Meteos properties from previous owner Q Entertainment. Enhance is owned by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, formerly of Q Entertainment and the creator of …

Branch will serve as centre of project management operations in the region

Free-to-play may still be finding its feet in the console market, but EA has identified what it thinks may be a potential avenue for the business model. Speaking to investors yesterday EA CEO Andrew Wilson said, as transcribed by Seeking Alpha, that games must inevitably follow the lead set out …

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But former Microsoft chief believes its will be "a few years" but potential of new headset is realised

Ridiculous Fishing clone led to developers 'crashing into a dark place for months'