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Final Fantasy publisher warns of 'extraordinary losses' in its current financial year

Imitating structure of other media is holding back games, says Epic Mickey creator

Games lawyer Dan Rogers concludes his two part series on how mobile developers can avoid the courtroom

Square Enix president Yoichi Wada is stepping down. The news comes as the publisher warns of what is describes as extraordinary losses” in its current financial year. Indeed, the overtly long tail being thrust upon consumers by the lack of market-ready next-gen hardware is certainly having an impact. Yousuke Matsuda …

BioWare is to close down Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Asia Pacific servers and merge them with the North American servers. A specific timeframe for the closure has not yet been revealed, although it has been announced that Mastar Dar’Nala (PvP) will transfer to The Bastion (PvP), Gav Daragon (RP-PvE) …

The team behind Ecco the Dolphin has launched a Kickstarter campaign for The Big Blue, a spiritual successor of the 1992 Sega-published classic. The Kickstarter page unveils the title as an all new underwater action adventure title, with Ecco’s original designer Ed Annunziata heading up the campaign that’s seeking $665k …

Retailers have listed the two special editions of The Last of Us for release in India. Listings for the Joel Edition and the Ellie Edition, named after the game’s central characters, have appeared on Flipkart and Game4u. Both editions are nearly identical; the only difference being the cover art. You …

SimCity has made its way back onto the Indian Origin store a couple of weeks after it was pulled by EA. SiimCity was released on Origin for Indian users at launch. Then a bunch of non-Indians found a loophole that let them circumvent Origin’s region restrictions to get the game …

Hyperkin’s RetroN 4 console reveal earlier this month turned out to be only part of the story. The company today unveiled the RetronN 5, which adds an additional cartridge slot for Japanese Famicom games. That’s in addition to the previously confirmed slots for NES, SNES, GBA, and Sega Genesis cartridges. …

Playdead’s macabre platformer Limbo is heading to PS Vita, Sony announced today at GDC. The indie hit will land on Sony’s handheld sometime later this year, but beyond that, no specific release target was mentioned. Limbo originally launched on XBLA in 2010, with PS3, PC, and Mac ports following suit. …