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Two years ago EA was the top player in the smartphone game space. Now it’s starting again in an attempt to recapture that crown. And EA Mobile boss Frank Gibeau blames the decline on the switch from premium to free-to-play. "I think we’ve successfully gotten back into position and we …

Middleware outfit faces off strong competition from Unreal Engine, CryEngine, Project Anarchy and GameMaker

Indie developer beats off stiff competition to win coveted trophy

Critical and commercial hits bag Prague outfit award

Accolade recognises years of behind the scenes work to promote the game industry in government

Apple’s App Store has reached the ripe old age of six, and as of right now contains some 1,252,777 apps. A further 578,000 will be added in the next 12 months, too. That’s according to Adjust’s Birth, Life and Death of an App report, which reckons that there were 453,902 …

Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games research at IHS Technology, questions whether Google’s latest Android-powered bid for the living room can disrupt the console rule of the PS4 and Xbox One… Google has announced a new version of its TV and set-top box solution, named Android TV, and in doing so …

Plans remains in place for every Xbox One unit to have the facility of being transformed into a development station. Microsoft said way back in July that any Microsoft-authorized Xbox One unit can be converted into a debug console – the advantage to developers of course being the ability to …

The remake of Grim Fandango will be launching on PC alongside PS4 and Vita, the game’s developer has confirmed. Double Fine previously announced that the dark comedy point and click adventure, originally released exclusively on PC in 1998, would be coming to PS4 and Vita at Sony’s E3 conference in …

The ‘rogue-lite’ dungeon platformer Rogue Legacy is coming to PlayStation platforms at the end of July. Teddy Lee, games designer at developer Cellar Door Games, announced that the game, which launched on PC, Mac and Linux last year, was originally designed with a view to playing on Vita. "When we …