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Much of the criticism aimed at now-defunct smartphone title Flappy Bird concerned allegations of IP infringement. Some quarters of the press and development community criticised the game’s creator Dong Nguyen for his use of a green pipe design that quite clearly references Nintendo’s Mario platform series. However, Nintendo spokesperson Yasuhiro …

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The studio behind in-development hardcore racing sim Project Cars has revealed an altogether more light-hearted title. World of Speed, from UK developer Slightly Mad Studios, is described by the studio as a triple-A massively multiplayer online arcade racing video game” that will be released as a free-to-play PC title this …

Supercell's flagship title continues to generate enormous revenues for Finnish studio

The company known as Justin.tv has been rebranded as Twitch Interactive. It comes as Twitch announces that it now boasts over one million active broadcasters and averages over 13 billion minutes watched per month from its 45m viewers. The Justin.tv brand, from which Twitch was originally a gaming offshoot, will …

Co-founder Mikkel Thorsted tells Develop how three students went from forming their own indie outfit to becoming a first-party Microsoft studio

Supercell’s Clash of Clans is certainly showing the established games powerhouses how it’s done. Business Insider reports that AppData numbers suggest the free-to-play smartphone title is making an astonishing $654,000 a day for the Finnish games firm. An App Annie report last month revealed that Clash of Clans is currently …

GAME is being taken to the Court of Appeal by a number of the country’s largest property companies. The Telegraph reports that a consortium of landlords including Land Securities, Hammerson and British Land are making claims on missed rent payments incurred around the time of GAME’s descent into administration in …

Ankama's Olivier Comte on the large undertaking of adapting a game to new countries and cultural tastes