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Ricardo Zacconi says company is just defending its rights, and regrets release of Pac-Avoid

Riccardo Zacconi, the CEO of King, has admitted that his company should never have released Pac-Avoid. Attention turned to the game in the wake of the Candy trademark dispute, with the accusation being that King knowingly cloned a game called Scamperghost that it had in 2009 been in negotiations to …

They can make the most successful entertainment product of all time. They can be responsible for the biggest console launch ever. They can even change the UK National Curriculum. Just don’t call them influential. The Sunday Times, in association with Debretts, revealed the 500 most influential Britons last weekend, yet …

Codemasters’ Peter Ward discusses the key skills needed for his role in sound design

Angry Birds is the latest game to become embroiled in the international government spying scandal. In December it was revealed that America’s National Security Agency and the British Government had been accessing data sourced from users of services such as Xbox Live and World of Warcraft. Now The New York …

Series designer "resolved to making something entirely new"

Respawn Entertainment has confirmed that it is not handling development duties for the current-gen version of Titanfall. Boss Vince Zampella has confirmed that Bluepoint Games is handling the Xbox 360 version of the highly anticipated multiplayer shooter, which is release on Xbox One, PC and 360 on March 14th. Bluepoint …

Senior online engineer and lead writer needed for Microsoft's newly-acquired franchise

After the success of its award-winning mobile RPG – Song of Swords, Nautilus Mobile is shifting gears for its second game. Real Cricket 14 is a cricket simulation planned for release in mid-March on iOS and Android. Why the drastic move from RPG to cricket? Anuj (Mankar, CEO) brought me …

Popular multiplayer online battle arena title League of Legends supports 27m active players on a daily basis, developer Riot Games has announced. The independent studio states the figure more than doubles the 12m active players the game boasted in October 2012 – adding that peak concurrent players have also increased …