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Xbox One sales hit a new low in Japan last week, selling just 300 units within the time frame. Games Industry calls attention to the abysmal figure, along with the fact that the console has been the tenth best (lowest) selling device on Media Create’s hardware chart for two straight …

New scheme headed up by ex-King game guru Tommy Palm, Avalanche's Christofer Sundberg and Rovio's Oskar Burman

Realtime Worlds’ online action title APB is making the jump from PC to consoles. Deep Silver is bringing a new version of the free-to-play PC game to PS4 and Xbox One in Q2 2015. The console release is being developed by Evil Within co-developer The Workshop Entertainment. It will be …

Publisher releasing Gambrinous' Guild of Dungeoneering later this year

The range of games streamed on Twitch is certainly diverse, but five big hitters were very much in control of the video streaming service last year. EEDAR data published on Games Industry shows that five games – League of Legends (26%), Dota 2 (12%), Hearthstone (9%), Counter Strike (9%) and …

Former Nintendo exec Dan Adelman says Unity 3DS support would entice more indie studios

The man who founded 4chan over a decade ago has announced plans to leave the site. The site, users of which were central to the planning and execution of last year’s GamerGate hate campaign, has over its 11 years to date hosted over 2bn posts and delivered over 42bn page …

Former Kabam exec and Cover Fire CEO Chris Ko joins advisory board

Blackberry CEO John Chen has tried to argue that President Obama’s recent net neutrality rulings should have wider implications for the technology sector. Specifically, in a bizarre open letter Chen has claimed that as well as having an open internet, we should also have open platforms – meaning he believes …

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