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Licensing.biz this morning unveils its first ever Power List of the most influential brands of 2013. Voted for by 200 independent industry judges – including licensors, licensees, retailers and agents among others – the four categories each had clear winners: Peppa Pig (eOne) was number one in the Character & …

'The biggest surprises seem to come from Nintendo'

Consumers are now able to trade-in their old iPhones at Apple stores in the UK. The trade-in scheme was revealed ahead of the iPhone 5S and 5C launch early last month but at the time was not expected to arrive on this side of the Atlantic. That’s all changed now, …

AMD has yet to officially announce the R9 290 or R9 290X, but leaked performance charts suggest Nvidia’s Titan has been dethroned as the world’s fastest GPU. Videocardz reports that said charts suggest the vanilla R9 290X offers a six per cent performance boost over the Titan – and with …

Gamble to share game industry insights to computer games design students

Crowdfunding site hosting four events in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to field developer questions

The first TV ad for PS4 has been released by Sony, and you can see it right here. It’s called ‘Perfect Day’ and sees two mates competing in a range of games (depicting an RPG, a racing game and Killzone), all while singing a version of the Loud Reed song …

GhungHo Entertainment Online and parent company Softbank have purchased a 51 per cent stake in Clash of Clans developer Supercell for $1.5bn. The deal, reported byTechCrunch, see’s the coming together of two of the industry’s biggest free-to-play developers, and values Supercell at $3 billion. Supercell is said to make around …

Clash of Clans developer valued at $3bn in purchase

The former head of Valve’s hardware division Jeri Ellsworth and ex-graphics technology dev Rick Johnson have launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for augment reality glasses. The project had initially begun life while the two worked at Valve, but the duo left the company earlier this year, and took the …