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Smash hit match-three mobile game getting the Nintendo treatment on 3DS

80 Days, This War of Mine, The Talos Principle and more nominated for accolades

Dev behind Blacklight and Daylight shuts down as founders retire

Forget Mario moving to smartphones – smartphone hit Puzzle & Dragons is making the move to 3DS. Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros Edition, which can be seen in the video below, mixes the game’s established gameplay with a Mario-themed makeover, with the gems carrying recognisable icons and the villains …

A bevy of classic video games are now available to play for free via your browser, including The Oregon Trail, King’s Quest, Wolfenstein 3D, Metal Gear and more. Polygon reports on Internet Archive’s release of the Software Library, which uses an EM_DOSBOX in-browser emulator to run its programs – in …

Pornhub has released a detailed 2014 report on the habits of its visitors, including a chart detailing which game consoles brought in the most traffic for the adult entertainment website. The unquestionably thorough Game Politics reports on the adult entertainment site’s research, which takes a look at dozens of different …

Valve has confirmed its annual Dota 2 eSports competition The International will return in 2015. The event will be held once again stateside in Seattle, Washington and run from August 3rd-8th. Tickets aren’t on sale as of yet, but according to Valve relevant info is coming soon via the Dota …

UPDATE: It has emerged that the Japanese console games market in 2014 had its worst performance for 24 years. As translated by NeoGaf, 2014’s 368.55bn total was the sector’s lowest total for nearly a quarter of a century. As recently as 2007 the region’s console games market was worth 688bn. …

New Year, New Job 2015: Goodgame’s Alex Felton offers bite-sized tips on what it takes to be a game balancer

PC owners who want to see upcoming RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt running at its best will need a beefy system to play it on. The game’s recommended system requirements list either a multithreaded Intel Core i7 3770 3.4GHz or eight-core AMD FX-8350 4GHz CPU. The GPU will need …