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'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

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