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Ubisoft has reported its half-year financial results, posting sales revenue of €293m for the period. The figure represents a five per cent year-over-year increase, with Q2 sales specifically showing an increase of 46.6 per cent and exceeding Ubisoft’s own expectations by €17m. Digital sales saw significant growth as well, up …

The Humble Store becomes permanent digital distribution service after years on the back-end

Valve’s track record with its distribution platform Steam has Blizzard COO Paul Sams excited about the potential surrounding the company’s Steam Machines initiative. Speaking with GameSpot at Blizzard’s annual BlizzCon gathering, Sams explained that Valve’s proven itself to be the only organization that could pull off its mission statement to …

Korean publisher's profits fall in spite of climbing revenues thanks to costs of acquisitions and royalties

Tom Ohle explains how his team of two is navigating the dangerous waters of indie publishing

Warner Bros has confirmed a delay to the Xbox One version of LEGO Marvel Super Heroes. The game had been scheduled to be a launch title on Xbox One. It’s still coming out on all other formats on November 15th, apart from on PS4 in Europe where it will arrive …

Warner Bros has a new Lord of the Rings game in the works for current and next-gen consoles. As revealed by GameInformer, it’s called Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and is being developed by FEAR, Condemned and Guardians of Middle-earth creators Monolith Productions. It depicts events set between those of The …

Three former writers from Future’s Linux Format magazine have set up a crowdfunding effort to establish a rival title. It’s called Linux Voice and is being made by former deputy editor Andrew Gregory, Mike Saunders and Ben Everard. The Indiegogo campaign is looking to raise 90,000, of which over 10k …

Rami Ismail, one half of indie developer Vlambeer, will not be attending NASSCOM Game Developer Conference 2013. Ismail recently underwent surgery and has been advised against long-distance travel by his doctors. His talk, titled ‘Indie marketing strategy’, was scheduled for day two of NGDC. I would like to super apologize …

PS4 will offer Facebook integration but, like Xbox One, won’t have a dedicated app for the console. That’s because the social network found that such apps took a lot of effort to maintain and ultimately offered little benefit to users. "One of the things that came out of our experience …