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Chinese version of match-three game coming to two telecoms services

David Braben is to sell up to 1.6m shares in Frontier Developments following the buyout of an IT firm which holds the rights to the Elite franchise he co-created. Frontier purchased software and IT consultancy Professional Practice Automation in a 5.09m deal on Tuesday, April 15th. Braben, CEO of Frontier, …

Reclaims rights to Elite in £5m buyout of Cambridge IT consultancy

Thanks to the generosity of the UK games industry, last week’s GamesAid Tenner at the MCV Awards raised an incredible 6,371. Big thanks must go to Sony PlayStation, too, which matched every single 10 donated with a tenner of its own. Gamesaid Tenner fund-raising during the MCV Awards has always …

Sony has revealed more details of its next firmware update for PS4. The 1.70 update will introduce something called SHAREfactory, a video editor app that allows for the combining of clips and the addition of effects, text, stickers, custom music and audio, as well as video commentary. Gameplay increments will …

A version of EA shooter Titanfall was at one stage proposed for PlayStation Vita. That’s one of many revelations in Geoff Keighley’s recently released documentary The Final Hours of Titanfall, as reported by GameSpot. Apparently after hearing of the specs for Xbox One Respawn got in touch with Sony to …

New title from the makers of Hector: Badge of Carnage is third title in line to be published on Steam via Team17

Documents unearthed as part of a US legal battle between Apple and Samsung have revealed the distasteful truth underpinning some corporate strategy. Cnet reports that Samsung America’s former head of national sales Michael Pennington saw the death of Apple boss Steve Jobs in 2011 as an opportunity for the company …

Juventus and Italy midfielder Andrea Pirlo has confessed his love for PlayStation in his new autobiography. After the wheel, the PlayStation is the best invention of all time,” he wrote, according to an extract printed by The Guardian. I can’t say with any certainty how many virtual matches I’ve played …

UPDATE:Activision has said that it still hopes to release the Xbox One version. It hasn’t specified the reason for the delay/cancellation. We are working with Microsoft in an effort to release The Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game on Xbox One," it told Eurogamer. "Currently, the game will be available on …