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EA has released Peggle Blast – a free-to-play take of PopCap’s Peggle franchise – on iOS and Android. The gameplay largely mirrors Peggle’s standard mechanic of launching pinballs at pegs across a variety of levels. The game utilizes an energy system” for the microtransaction portion. When the player fails to …

Valve has launched Steam Broadcasting in beta, allowing Steam users to livestream without having to utilize third-party services such as Twitch. In an announcement on Steam News, the games and software distributor details how players can stream gameplay live to their friends and other Steam users. When you see a …

Acclaimed UK developer Peter Molyneux has said that Kickstarting a game too early in its development can have a detrimental effect on the final product. "What I’ve learned is that doing Kickstarter and Steam Early Access, before you’ve got something which is defined and playable, is a hugely risky undertaking …

Riot has revealed that 27m unique viewers streamed coverage of the League of Legends 2014 Finals. Over 100 hours of live content in 19 languages was broadcast by 40 partners throughout the event’s 15 days, racking up 288m cumulative daily unique page impressions and 179m hours of watched eSport. The …

Hundreds of thousands of tracks used in games, film and TV available to developers

A third worldwide outing for The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses concert series has been announced. The tour will grace London’s Wembley Arena on April 17th 2015, with additional European dates to be announced in the near future”. The event will feature music from 3DS title A Link …

An ongoing legal disagreement between Nintendo and Philips has been brought to a close. In May Philips tried to halt sales of Nintendo’s assorted devices in the US, alleging that two of its motion control patents had been infringed – a claim that was upheld by a US court the …

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The co-director and designer of Kingdom Hearts 3 has said that some of Disney’s biggest IP could feature in the upcoming Square Enix RPG. Well, yeah. They’re all under consideration,” Tai Yasue told Kotaku when asked about the possible inclusion of Star Wars and Marvel characters. Nothing’s off-limits, we’re considering …

Few documents make as interesting a read as the UK Wii U charts. Let’s start with the unsurprising news – new release Super Smash Bros has this week debuted at No.1 (despite the fact the Wii U release was only able to propel the game to 13th in the UKIE …