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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 …

Ubisoft has unexpectedly moved the release date for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag forward on current-gen machines. The game will now land this month on Tuesday October 29th on PS3 and Xbox 360. It had originally been planned to hit those formats on November 1st. The game will still arrive …

Ubisoft has brought forward the release date of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag for Xbox 360 and PS3 by a couple of days to 29th October. The game was earlier scheduled for a 1st November release. However, the release date for the PC, PS4 and Xbox One versions remains unchanged …

Diversity key to success for team of ten

'We strongly want to get into Linux for a reason,' says creative director

New options aren't functional, but provide a peak at Steam's future

The NPD Group has released its 2013 Online Gaming Report, which finds that nearly 50 per cent more console gamers use the Xbox 360 for playing online than the PS3. Microsoft posted the results on the Xbox newswire, adding that the firm has seen more than 20bn hours of online …

Ouya has kicked off a closed beta period to test external storage device support for the $99 Android-based microconsole. A post on thecompany’s official websitedetails the latest update for the hardware and explains the thinking behind running the external storage closed beta. "It’s a big feature and there are a …