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The Wii U’s slow start on the market can be attributed to the difficulty of conveying its features to the public. That’s the opinion of Xavier Poix, the MD of Ubisoft’s Annecy, Montpellier, and Paris studios who also admitted that Ubisoft made mistakes with Wii U launch title ZombiU. "The …

Conifer Games takes on crowdfunding with $40,000 empire building game

EA has been named as the most critically successful publisher of 2012 by reviews aggregation site Metacritic. The report included all publishers who had released 15 or more titles and factored in metrics including average review score and the number of good (75%+), bad (49%-) and great (90%+) titles published. …

'We don't expect to see a meaningful change in what it costs us to release our products'

The PlayStation Vita has completed one year and PSN is celebrating by hosting a sale on several Vita titles. The sale offers up to 50% off on 24 titles for the handled, with an additional 10% discount to PlayStation Plus subscribers on most of them. The sale went live today …

CityVille 2, The Friend Game and Party Place are to close despite having only launched in the last quarter. Three other games that launched in the period – CoasterVille, Bubble Safari Ocean and Ayakashi – are to survive. The news comes as Zynga reports a net loss of $209.4m for …

Crowdcube investors will now be able to claim compensation from the FSA if needed

A detailed look at the until now mysterious innards of the Wii U suggests that Nintendo’s machine will be eclipsed by the upcoming PS4 and Xbox 720. The tech heads at Digital Foundry have examined the results of a detailed teardown of the Wii U hardware. The result is a …

We look at new emerging hardware such as GameStick, Project Shield and Steam Box

Activation codes to prevent sale of pre-owned games and new Kinect to ship alongside console, claim sources