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A brand new development studio is being opened in San Francisco by Warner Bros. The studio will be tasked with making high-quality, free-to-play, mobile, social and browser-based games” and will be led by Warner Bros Entertainment’s senior VP of digital games Greg Ballard. It will also oversee publishing of all …

Chinese web giant Tencent paid $330 million for a 40 per cent stake in Epic Games in July last year, the company has revealed. Initially announced as acquiring a minority stake” in the Gears of War developer last July, Tencent has now disclosed the full details of the investment in …

Developer to focus on free-to-play, mobile, social and browser-based games

Free-to-play card battler Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft has been announced by Blizzard.The game will be cross platform across PC, Mac and iPad. It takes the established card battle format and injects it with a dose of the popular Warcraft IP. It will be debuted this weekend at US event PAX …

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Investment enables Chinese firm to nominate directors to the board

The United Arab Emirates is one of the richest regions in the Middle East, and one that is home to a promising video games market. An avid gaming community is catered for by several specialist games retailers. The passion of this customer base can be seen at events like Metal …

Alex Wiltshire, the current editor of Future’s Edge magazine, is to leave the publication at the end of the month. The news comes from upcoming games conference Launch, which says Wiltshire is leaving to work as a freelance writer and consultant on video games for developers and institutions including the …

Nintendo’s Wii U is currently on sale for an all-time low price on the UK High Street. HMV is selling the Wii U Premium bundle including copies of both NintendoLand and Ubisoft’s ZombiU for just 199.99. That’s a 140 discount on the RRP. In-store POS confirming the price was spotted …

The famed indie developer on why the Indie Game Summit is her highlight of GDC