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Puzzle & Dragons creator GungHo saw operating profit climb 4,331.2 per cent per cent year-on-year for the six months ending June 2013. Serkantoto.com reports that operating profit totalled $460m for the period. Sales climbed 945.5 per cent to $763 with net income growing 2,609.2 per cent to $287m. For the …

Phil Scott discusses developing the shooter to NVIDIA Shield

A 300GB successor to the Blu-ray standard has been revealed by Sony and Panasonic. The BBC reports that the format is intended to be in place by 2015 and is being designed with an eye on the new 4K Ultra High Resolution standard. Movies made to this spec will likely …

John Osvald, Nathan Etter and Jesse Janosov head for the exit door

Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson has endorsed Microsoft’s recently announced plan to make every Xbox One work as a dev kit. These plans were revealed by Microsoft earlier this month as part of its dramatic indie U-turn. "I think it’s a wonderful idea to have the actual box be the …

Deep Silver’s Saints Row IV has once again been blocked from release in Australia. A three-member panel of the Classification Review Board has unanimously determined that the computer game Saints Row IV is classified Refused Classification,” a new statement from the Australian Classification Board confirmed. In the Review Board’s opinion, …

Tiga's Richard Wilson on how promoting game clusters can provide a boost to promising start-ups

A host of former LucasArts game projects have been named in a book chronicling the history of LucasArts. Although published in 2008, a list of 20 potential game logos available in Chronicle Books’ Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts was thrust online recently by AllGamesBeta. You can see all the …

Minecraft creator gives nod to plan to make every console a dev-kit

The US Official Microsoft Store has revealed the pre-order prices for the first Xbox One accessories. The Xbox One controller is priced at $59.99. That’s around 40 in real money, although of course the price is unlikely to translate in this way – expect perhaps a 50 price tag in …