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Studio co-founder Christofer Sundberg tells Develop about tackling the Mad Max IP, free-to-play, and ten years at the reins

Ad specialist Generation Media takes a look at historical TV marketing data to predict the level of screen advertising we might expect from video games during Q4… PROJECTING THE SHAPE OF Q4 GAMES & CONSOLES TV MARKETING Whilst there has been a trend in recent years to start campaigns earlier …

Experts from Bossa and Facebook have joined the final schedule for next month’s London Games Conference. Roberta Lucca, CMO and co-founder at Bossa Studios, will speak on creating hit game Surgeon Simulator by doing things differently – and the results have been over a million YouTube uploads, a hundred million …

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Call of Duty: Ghosts is now available from ShopTo.net after the retailer and Activision settled their differences regarding the title. It was revealed in May that ShopTo would not be stocking the game after a disagreement with the publisher regarding the day on which it was able to post orders …

Maker of anxiety-relief aid Playlab London will be given £50,000 to develop the app further

Clash of Clans developer eyes the same sort of player engagement and reach as World of Warcraft

Sony has opened up digital pre-orders for a pair of PS4 launch titles on PSN and the Sony Entertainment Network online store. PlayStation’s Twitter account announces PS3 owners now have the ability to reserve PS4 digital downloads of Crytek’s free-to-play shooter Warframe and SCE Japan’s action game Knack. Knack is …

Kickstarter is planning a November launch in Australia and New Zealand. The crowdfunding platform’s official site currently hosts a splash page revealing November 13th as the go ahead date for regional projects – though interested developers can start readying their campaigns immediately. The company is also hosting ‘Kickstarter Schools,’ a …

Monster Hunter 4 has surpassed 3m copies shipped in its first month. Capcomannounces the figure was reached across both retail and digital versions of the game. The milestone brings the lifetime sales total for the Monster Hunter series to 26m units sold. Monster Hunter 4 launched on September 14th in …