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Last month an online game launched which took the gaming world by storm. Over 16 days, the title was played by over 1.16m gamers and watched by almost 10m people. At its peak, 121,000 people were watching it simultaneously. The game? It was the 1996 Game Boy classic, Pokmon Red. …

Sony has revealed that Infamous: Second Son has more pre-orders than last year’s blockbuster The Last of Us had at the same point prior to launch. The upcoming super hero title is Sony’s first big PlayStation 4 game of 2014, and the publisher is putting a lot of money behind …

CEO Cliff Dennett explains why superfast 4G connections are driving success at Soshi Games

US publisher argues its 'consolidating' and 'streamlining' its business to focus on high quality digital products

Amy Hennig was in no way forced out” of developer Naughty Dog. The original report revealing the writer’s departure had claimed to have word from sources that Hennig was ‘forced out’ by The Last of Us leads Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley”. These reports have now been strongly denied. Earlier …

Ubisoft insists that the Wii U versions of Watch Dogs is still in development. In January reports emerged claiming that the Nintendo SKU had been cancelled – claims that were later denied by Ubisoft, although not until over two weeks after the event. Watch Dogs was given a May 27th …

Our bumper-sized March issue also features Peter Molyneux, Wearable Tech, Sean Murray FAQ and more

Evan Wells and Chrisophe Balestra issue statement to set the record straight after ‘unprofessional misreporting’

Digikhel has announced its first iOS game – a deep space mining arcade game titled Orion’s Gold. The game is set in a distant future, where all of Earth’s natural resources are depleted and humans must venture to the dangerous Orion’s Belt to mine for precious metals. Gameplay involves mining …

Denmark-based company GameAnalytics has announced the appointment of PopCap’s Allison Bilas as its new vice president of product. Bilas joined PopCap in 2010 as a social games business analyst, later rising to become senior manager of the studio’s game analytics department. She’s credited for several titles, including Bejeweled Blitz and …