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A range of in-app purchases in EA’s mobile titles will be used to collect for wildlife charity WWF over the next week. As part of the collaboration between EA Mobile and WWF, players of specific titles in EA’s mobile catalogue will be able to fundraise for specific animals and ecosystems …

Japanese smartphone developer Mobcast has purchased the rights to Q Entertainment’s Lumines and Meteos puzzle franchises. Furthermore – as reported by Siliconera– the Tokyo-based studio has already announced it is working on a new mobile entry of the Lumines series for both Android and iOS. Lumines creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi is …

The Witcher III dev hopes 16 free add-ons will dissuade trade-ins and piracy

Frontier founder says it's unclear how many employees will choose to relocate

Creating a wide range of characters is "more fun than the same generic bro and hot chick over and over again"

Japanese smartphone developer bringing Lumies to mobile

2014 was the first full year for the New Generation, and you could tell. PS4 and Xbox One caused a massive spike in hardware sales, while accessories for both consoles dominated the peripherals charts. Yet it wasn’t just about those two consoles. In fact, more games were sold on Xbox …

Yanis Varoufakis tipped for new parliamentary role

Microsoft says it shifted 6.6m Xbox consoles during the last quarter of 2014. The platform holder did not say how many of these were Xbox Ones or Xbox 360s, however. In the UK, Xbox One topped the console rankings in November. But didn’t in October or December – those months …

Frontier Developments – the team behind Elite: Dangerous – has announced a round of redundancies at the developer. The firm says it is working on two main projects: Elite: Dangerous and a new PC game called Coaster Park Tycoon, which will launch in 2016. As a result, 15 ‘content creation’ …