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As our Indie Retail Month continues, this week we reveal the five top fastest growing indies in the UK. Starting off the week is a look at online indie 365games.co.uk (Xbite). Xbite managing director Nick Whitehead talks to MCV about the challenges in starting up an online independent store and …

As our Indie Retail Month in association with Gem continues, the last entry in our look at UK’s best new indies is Welsh store JD Games. Co-owner Dafydd Davies tells MCV about how the new shop is growing every day JD Games in Llanelli, Wales only opened in December 2012 …

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Smash hit mobile game generating nearly $4 million a day

Japanese smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons is making some serious cash for owner GungHo. Serkantoto.com reports that the iOS and Android game made an eye-watering $133m in April alone, according to GungHo president Kazuki Morishita. That equates to a staggering $3.76m per day. GungHo’s overall sales reached 12bn ($199m) in …

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Blizzard is to hand over the profits generated from a recent bug in the Diablo III Auction house to charity. The popular PC dungeon crawler allows players to trade in-game items for real-world cash. However, a recent patch introduced an exploit that allowed users to multiply their cash reserves. The …

Futuristic open-world action title Watch Dogs has been handed a touch of extra realism thanks to Kaspersky Lab. The anti-virus firm has apparently been working with Ubisoft to ensure that the hacking – a gameplay mechanic central to the title – works in a believable fashion. Players will in the …

Publisher plots review of development policy as major titles underperform

The recent uproar around the cloning of Vlambeer’s next game, Luftrausers, has been picked up by every major gaming publication, with both Vlambeer and RubiqLabs, the developers of Luftrausers’s supposed clone (SkyFar), making themselves heard on the matter. Most of us haven’t played Luftrausers; while it has been showcased at …