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Electronic Arts told investors last night that its latest Dragon Age game marked the biggest launch for a BioWare game in the company’s history. That’s bigger than any of the Mass Effect games and its Star Wars games. Dragon Age: Inquisition had by far the most successful launch in BioWare’s …

FIFA Ultimate Team and SimCity BuildIt helped EA generate $1.1bn in GAAP revenue in the quarter ending December 31st 2014. Revenue from boxed products was up year-on-year – packaged goods made $585m, up from $398m during the same period last year. Digital sales represented around half of the publisher’s net …

Level designer Dereau Benoit demonstrates incredible detail and lighting techniques

Publisher's Andrew Wilson says firm is "actively investigating" free-to-play options on consoles

We uncover changes in developer salaries across the globe and look at the effects of crunch

Elite co-creator will receive Pioneer Award while Romero is this year's Ambassador winner

Nintendo posted a huge increase in profits and raised its earnings forecast, but cheap yen is masking weak sales. Nintendo profits for the nine months ending December 2014 hit 59.52 billion yen (332.6m), which is up almost six fold on the year before. This is primarily down to the launch …

Project management tool now completely integrated into popular game engine

The Spanish market is one of the largest in Europe. DEV, the ‘Spanish Association for the Game and Entertainment Software Development and Publishing Industry’, estimates that the sector will achieve a value of €516 million (394m) in 2015 – an increase of more than €200 million (152.7m) on the €313.7 …

Mobile release of city building title amasses 22m downloads since December