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Sale of foreign game consoles approved for the market with new guidelines

Why will GRID: Autosport not be released on PS4 or Xbox One? For a number of reasons, Codemasters has said. Regarding next-gen, ultimately it comes down to a few things,” the company’s community manager Ben Walke has said across a number of posts on NeoGAF. The first is that we …

Player analytics firm’s tools to help solve engagement problems for Unity developers

PlayStation will offer insight into Project Morpheus and making games for virtual reality at a special Develop event later this month. An Audience With… Project Morpheus takes place on the evening of April 30th. The event will be held at the Dolby Lounge in Soho, London, and follows the successful …

Ubisoft’s Trials Frontier has broken mobile records for the publisher. It has revealed that the game, despite aggravating some critics, was downloaded over 6m times in its first week of release, making it the fastest selling mobile game the publisher has ever released. The game is currently the number one …

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The Game Attorney’s Tom Buscaglia heading up organisation for 2014

Ubisoft has said that global sales for games in the Assassin’s Creed series have now hit 73m units. That ranks it ahead of Just Dance (48m), Splinter Cell (30m), Rainbow Six (26m), Ghost Recon (25m) and Rayman (25m). A few other stats were also revealed on Ubisoft’s corporate website. For …

The Nokia brand name will be dropped by Microsoft once it officially acquires the mobile manufacturer. According to a letter sent by the new owners to suppliers, the Nokia Corporation/Nokia Oyj (Ltd) name will be replaced with Microsoft Mobile Oy. The acquisition of Nokia’s loss-making business was first announced in …

Exclusivity has long been a battleground in the console sector, but now the smartphone giants are getting in on the act. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which reports that both companies have been aggressively courting developers to try and secure exclusive titles for iOS and Android. Apple sees …