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More than one million daily active users are playing new Finnish studio Seriously’s debut mobile game Best Fiends. The free-to-play match-three title was released in October and has since been downloaded over seven million times. Each day players are said to rack up more than 400,000 hours of gameplay. The …

The next game to star Sonic the Hedgehog will be a smartphone title named Sonic Runners. Polygon reports that the 2D side-scrolling runner will feature stages that can be completed in a minute or two, with emphasis placed on one-handed gameplay. Sonic will in the game move forward automatically, with …

Indiegama's Tom Spencer-Smith talks us through the development of his upcoming action-strategy game Army 21

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Michelle Turner left Bournemouth University in 2008 with a degree in Public Relations and started her career in the European head office of The Walt Disney Company handling projects such as High School Musical and Pirates of the Caribbean. She moved to the North-West and worked in various PR and …

Former CEO and founder of Monolith ProductionsJason Hall has saidhe’s looking for an indie developer to make Condemned 3. Polygonreports that Hall is "consistently asked when a third [Condemned] game might be created", with the last entry released back in 2008. Monolith has just finished work on the widely acclaimed …

Developers from Steam firm, EA, Unity, Epic and Oxide to discuss glNext initiative with full technical breakdown of the API

Lepissier is a sales veteran having spent 17-years at various consumer electronics giants including LG, Canon and now Microsoft. She is a graduate of the International Business School of Paris, the Manhattan Institute of Management in New York and the International Management University of Asia, Tokyo, and has worked in …

Later today the very first eSports Pro newsletter is published by MCV. eSports Pro is the first dedicated B2B source for pro-gaming, and is part of a bigger commitment to this important part of games culture and business by MCV. There are plenty of ways MCV readers and the global …

Metacritic data has shown that Nintendo titles had the highest average review score in 2014. Games by the platform holder averaged 76.5 per cent with critics. That placed them ahead of Ubisoft in second (74.1%), EA in third (74.5% – see below for the reasoning behind that positioning), Sony in …