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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'

Chicken not Flappy Bird, Not so Flappy Bird 3D and Flying Bird 3D not Flappy Bird hit Google Play and App Store

The gaming fandom has once again put itself to shame following its reaction to the pulling of Flappy Bird. Creator Dong Nguyen removed the game from app stores yesterday, saying that I cannot take this anymore”. It’s not hard to see why. As spotted by Develop, recent tweets to Nguyen …