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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

From Software has revealed what Japanese gamers will be receiving with the Collector’s Edition of Dark Souls 2. Whereas Western gamers get a 30cm/450g Warrior Knight as the standout inclusion, in Japan the SKU comes with a latched hard case containing eight sword and shield replicas. The heaviest of the …

PlayStation Plus is proving hugely popular with PS4 owners. CVG reports that Sony CEO Kaz Hirai told investors that "of all the 4.2m PS4s that have moved into the hands of consumers, more than half of those people have signed up for the PS Plus service". There are now also …

PC GAMING WEEK: Sales of boxed PC games may have reached their lowest point in history, but the creators of Football Manager and The Sims insist the High Street remains vital. The majority of PC games are bought digitally. Yet Sports Interactive’s Miles Jacobson and The Sims exec producer Rachel …

Famed UK developer Peter Molyneux has added his voice to the list of those criticising EA’s Dungeon Keeper smartphone remake. "I felt myself turning round saying, ‘What? This is ridiculous. I just want to make a dungeon. I don’t want to schedule it on my alarm clock for six days …

'I just want to make a dungeon. I don't want to schedule it on my alarm clock for six days to come back for a block to be chipped'