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The ‘M’ in ‘MOBA’ may not stand for ‘Money’, but given the number of companies jumping on the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena bandwagon, it wouldn’t be hard to believe. With the success of League of Legends and Dota 2 continuing to grow (the average number of monthly minutes of League …

Metal API enables dev to run sections of Battlefield 4 on mobile

Social gaming veteran says new not-quite-an-incubator will fuel his next projects

It’s little surprise that the shooter genre continues to be one of the biggest games markets in the world. MCV locks and loads One only need take a look at the success of the biggest new IP launch in history – Destiny – to know that the shooter is still …

Ok, so as it turns out, even a quiet year for Call of Duty can be quite noisy. The mainstream media all popped up with big news articles about the game. MCV even conducted two radio interviews to mark the game’s arrival. Yet this was a quieter year for Call …

Shigeru Miyamoto has outlined plans for future Amiibo products. In an investor briefing for Nintendo’s semi-annual financial results, the development veteran said that the platform is working on cheaper and smaller Amiibo figures, as well as cards that will have the same functionality as the toys-to-life range. The first waves …

Development tools firm shifts towards analytics and mobile marketing

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Nintendo has moved forward the release date of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker a whole week. The Wii U puzzler – a spin off of the critically acclaimed Super Mario 3D World – was originally due out on January 9th. It will now hit shelves on January 2nd. We’re not entirely …

The UK games industry is spending a huge 107m on marketing this Q4. It’s a drop on last year’s 128m, but that figure was skewed by the launch of three new consoles: Xbox One, PS4 and 2DS. The better comparison will be with 2012’s figure of 99m. The vast majority …