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Few people possess the sort of insight into indie game development that industry veteran Jason Della Rocca does. Having headed the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) for nine years, he’s been involved with independent game development long before it went indie”. Della Rocca’s Execution Labs now funds and mentors indie …

Ubisoft reported earnings for the quarter ending December 31st, 2013 – revealing a significant year-over-year decline. The firm brought in €520m in sales during its Q3 period, a 35.2 per cent drop from the same quarter in 2012. Overall sales for the first three quarters of the company’s current fiscal …

The Wii U version of Watch Dogs is still in development, but won’t launch alongside the rest of the game’s platforms this spring. The delay was confirmed during Ubisoft’s call to investors this week, where the publisher again committed to a spring release target for the title on PC, PS3, …

The Rabbids are making their way to the big screen. Ubisoft, Sony and Columbia Pictures have announced a partnership to produce a full-length feature film starring the Rabbids. Shot to fame by the Rayman franchise, the creatures have proven popular with younger viewers and have since branched into their own …

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 …

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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 …