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Intel Developer Blog: All future Intel product enhancements will be available to Unity developers

Sales of additional digital content could reach as much as $1bn for EA in the current financial year. That’s according to Bloomberg, which quotes Longbow Research analyst as saying that the margins on Madden Ultimate Team are through the roof”. Revenue from madden DLC grew 350 per cent for the …

There won’t be any sweeping changes to either Twitch’s direction or staff following its buyout at the hands of Amazon. A $970m buyout was confirmed on Monday. We chose Amazon because they believe in our community, they share our values and long-term vision, and they want to help us get …

We talk to the developer shaping the future of this icon of game middleware

The Legend of Zelda’s Link and racing IP F-Zero are to star in new DLC coming to Mario Kart 8. The first of two DLC packs goes by the name The Legend of Zelda X Pack and includes the characters Link, Tanooki Mario and Cat Peach along with an F-Zero …

Marching onward with our down under developer profiles, we look at Nnooo, one of the few smaller Aussie indies with a strong console focus.

The tablet gaming market still has plenty of room to grow, according to a new report from market research firm Juniper. Games Industry highlights the company’s new findings, which claim that tablet gaming revenue will reach $13.3bn by 2019. Revenue is expected to hit $3.6bn this year, so Juniper is …

Capcom is suing fellow Japanese publisher Koei Tecmo for patent infringements that allegedly involve 50 of the latter firm’s titles. Siliconera translates a report from Japanese publication Sankei, which claims Capcom is seeking around $9.43m in damages. The amount is equivalent to a license fee of around 10 per cent …

Free-to-play mobile trading card game WWE SuperCard has combined for 1.5m downloads between iOS and Android platforms, 2K has announced. The publisher didn’t go into specifics regarding how those downloads are divided up on each platform, but the total between the two was reached in less than two weeks out …