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Ubisoft has acquired UK free-to-play mobile studio Future Games of London. The publishing giant will now take on the developer’s 41 employees and its IP, which includes Hungry Shark. Founded in 2009, Future Games of London has garnered more than 100 million downloads from its range of titles, including four …

Research says sales have boosted in France and the UK

UK trade body UKIE and age ratings firm PEGI has rejected criticism that it’s not doing enough to prevent children getting its hands on adult video games. Last week, the PEGI age ratings system came under scrutiny after videos showing children younger than 18 receiving GTA V appeared on YouTube. …

A new PS3 firmware update has extended the ability to enable automatic downloads to non-subscribers of PlayStation Plus. Previously PS+ members were able to have their consoles automatically download both system updates and software purchases made in the online version of the Sony Entertainment Network website. Now all PS3 owners …

Intel Developer Blog: Softtalkblog looks at creating native apps with its development environment for Android

In what is an early contender for ‘vague press release of the day’, X-Factor’s Union J has teamed up withPokmon X and Y. What does that mean? Well we have to wait until October 4th for the full details. But judging by Pokmon’s last boyband partnership (with the now global …

New sessions to discuss mobile monetisation and how social can make games better

Boss of troubled social games giant displays apathy during interview

Olivier Wolff talks a lot about relevance. And for good reason. Even when you’re an entertainment colossus as strong as Warner Bros, the games market’s often fickle shifts are hard to avoid. So when you ask him about Warner Games’ performance amidst a world of change, he’s bullish and to …

An undoubtedly completely innocent tech mishap has seemingly named a number of Valve developers currently working on Half-Life 3. As posted on Reddit, Valve’s internal User Picker software became available to the public briefly last night – just long enough, it transpires, for sleuths to extract from it a list …