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Activision has recovered the rights to the King’s Quest franchise from Telltale Games, as The Walking Dead developer has confirmed it is no longer working on anything related to rebooting the classic adventure series. Steve Allison, Telltale’s Senior VP of publishing, toldDigital Trendsthat the studio returned the IP to Activision …

Disney has announced that it is shutting down LucasArts, the game development arm of Lucasfilm, choosing to outsource future Star Wars games to minimise risk. After evaluating our position in the games market, we’ve decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimising the company’s risk …

Angry Birds creator Rovio raked in $195m in revenue last year, thanks in large part to merchandise sales for the popular casual IP. The developer reports it brought in a net profit of $71.3m in 2012, up $25m from the previous year. Consumer products – such as clothing lines, plushies, …

Internal development team disbanded as company shifts to external licensing model

LucasArts is to be disbanded by new owner Disney. The firm’s game publishing and internal development business will close, with Lucas properties such as Star Wars to be licensed to external businesses, Game Informer reports. The full statement from Disney – which bought parent LucasFilm and the Star Wars franchise …

Intel Developer Blog: Softtalkblog recommends tools and resources for porting apps

Earlier version of horror title 'did not exhibit the quality and excitement intended'

Profits up £17 million as number of game downloads surpasses 1.7 billion

We had reported a few days ago that the demo for Injustice: Gods Among Us would be part of today’s PSN Store update, but the demo seems to have been left off the Indian store. Browsing through the store, the only Injustice content to be found was a PS3 theme. …

Work on Doom 4 was completely rebooted by developer Id Software at the end of 2011. That’s according to Kotaku, which describes the game as being in trouble” as it approaches its fifth year in development. An earlier version of Doom 4 did not exhibit the quality and excitement that …