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Free-to-play games are no longer listed as being ‘Free’ on the Apple App Store. Instead, apps such as Candy Crush Saga, Angry Birds Stella and Clash of Clans now have a ‘Get’ button, below which is the line ‘In-App Purchases’. Beyond confirming to Re/Code that the change has been made …

CFO says publisher will back pioneering tech if big hurdle overcome

Yogscast says comparing it to the games media is a ‘category error’. Rich Keith, GM of the hit video network and speaking today at London Games Conference, says Yogscast and other video stars – such as PewDiePie – are not the games media. They are far more powerful than that …

It turns out that Sex Pistols star John ‘Rotten’ Lydon is quite the gamer. Despite telling The Telegraph that he and his wife are normally really careful” with money there is one hobby on which Lydon is happy to splash the cash – gaming. I wasted – you’re the first …

Video game advertisements on Facebook are less successful than dating ads, the firm has revealed. In fact, game ads are the worst performing on the social network in its entirety. The news was announced at today’s London Games Conference. You are not just competing with other video game ads, you …

Developer Relations exec Rupert Whitehead offers tips to London Games Conference attendees

Publisher EA has said it will be right at the forefront of virtual reality if the technology takes off – but a big hurdle remains before that can happen. The challenge is if you are at all even slightly motion sick prone, it’s very tough," EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said …

Western FPS king Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has beaten a firm Japanese favourite to the top of the Japanese weekly charts. Famitsu data reveals that the shooter, published by Square Enix in the region, sold 100,996 copies on PS3 to claim No.1, beating the 76,407 units PES 2015 sold …

Players of Blizzard’s all-conquering MMO World of Warcraft are being handed a five day extension to their subscriptions to make up for the troubled launch of the Warlords of Draenor DLC. The offer applies to all subscriptions that were active as of Friday November 14th. The quality of the content …

PC gamers complaining about the lack of a specific function in the PC version of Far Cry 4 have been revealed to be pirates. A number of complainants took to the likes of Reddit and Twitter to complain the Ubisoft’s game lacked a FOV (field of view) slider – this …