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King.com’s massively popular match-3 title Candy Crush Saga is to make its debut on Kindle Fire devices later this week. The game will be available from the Amazon Appstore from Thursday (October 17th), although it will appear in some unspecified ‘selected territories’ today. The game has some 53m+ active daily …

Xbox One owners will not need to subscribe to Xbox Live Gold to access free-to-play title Project Spark. The platform holder’s community Mike Lescault confirmed onReddit: You will not need a Gold subscription to play Project Spark for free on any platform.” Free-to-play titles previously released on Xbox 360, such …

Nintendo has revealed some impressive sales numbers for Pokemon X & Y’s opening weekend. The games – the first entries in the Pokemon series on 3DS – sold 4m units between them on Saturday October 12th and Sunday October 13th. And Friday October 11th in the UK. The impressive number …

The Xbox One may still be a year away from finding its way to Indian store shelves, but Microsoft India has plenty in the works for the Xbox 360. We speak with Anshu Mor, group head of the company’s interactive entertainment business, about entertainment content on Xbox Live, the Xbox …

Project Spark to be accessible to all Live users on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC

'The shift to free-to-play is real and happening'

One of the scariest games of recent memory is to arrive on Steam in time for Halloween later this month. It’s not yet been revealed precisely when it will arrive on the service or how much it will cost, although developer Blue Isle Studios has revealed that the Steam version …

Although it’s obviously not Connect 4 because that’s trademarked. Perhaps Apple’s bizarre decision to cut loads of holes into its new range of iPhone 5C cases wasn’t so weird after all? A new app called Flipcase uses Apple’s accessory to turn an iPhone 5C (or indeed any iPhone you can …

GAME has an exclusive pre-order bonus for Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds – a tiny musical treasure chest. The chest plays the series’ famous chest-opening jingle when opened. The pre-order bonus was revealed in a Vine featuring Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata and Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma: This …

From all-in-one indie dev packages to plug-ins for improving player engagement, we bring you a guide to the best mobile game development tools available