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Mobile company Space Ape is a brand on the rise. The firm is also two years old and has already seen success with real-time strategy (RTS) title Samurai Siege, which has consistently been in the Top 100 grossing apps on the iOS charts and has generated $21m in revenue since …

Ian Livingstone is one of the UK game industry’s greatest success stories. Starting up Games Workshop alongside fellow Brit Steve Jackson in their flat in 1975, Livingstone moved from board games and role-playing novels into video games during the mid-‘90s, joining Eidos Interactive and securing major franchises including Tomb Raider. …

For the Halo fanatics out there, the next 12 months promises to be one of – if not the – most exciting years in the franchise’s history. There’s a TV series backed by Steven Spielberg, an entirely separate online live-action series called Halo: Nightfall produced by Ridley Scott, the highly …

Nintendo’s lead designer Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed that Nintendo’s next home console is in development and even suggested that Mario’s next game may be a launch title. For the time being, our focus is on the Wii U hardware, but Nintendo as a whole has groups working on ideas for …

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A remastered version of Xbox 360 title Halo: ODST is one of a number of freebies being offered as compensation for the shambolic launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The 1080p/60fps remaster includes the entire single player campaign and will be offered to anyone who played The Master Chief …

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UK eSports firm Gfinity has debuted on London Stock Exchange’s AIM today, raising 3.5m. Gfinity arrived on the alternative investments marketing this morning at 17p per share – shares are already trading at a higher rate two hours later. The placing gives the company a market cap of 13.2m. Gfinity …

Activision’s Call of Duty series has for the fifth time in UK history claimed the title of Christmas No.1. A 33 per cent jump in sales saw COD: Advanced Warfare overtake last week’s chart topper FIFA 15, which itself saw an eight per cent week-on-week jump in sales. It’s a …

There may be a shortage of PS4 consoles in some European countries over the remainder of the holiday period. That’s according to Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House, who told Reuters that Europe I think it is potentially, for the second year running, going to be quite inventory challenged”. He …