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The upcoming Pokemon games, Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, for the Nintendo 3DS will likely be the last titles in the series to appear on Nintendo’s handheld platform, according to developer Game Freak. This suggests the series will now find a more permanent home on the Nintendo Switch, starting with …

AppLovin's MD for EMEA, Johannes Heinze, looks at thow the holiday season can be a great boost to mobile games, as long as you approach it correctly

An all star panel of Phil Harrison, Chris Kingsley, Jason Kingsley OBE and Jon Hare will join filmakers Anthony Caulfield and Nicola Caulfield to discuss the documentary

The Nintendo Switch has sold 2m units in the US, the platform holder has announced, after the console claimed its third straight month at No.1 in the US hardware charts. According to the latest NPD data, the Switch was the top-selling console once again this September, marking its third consecutive month at …

Riot Games are the headline sponsors for Esports Pro’s Esports Workshop, a name we wouldn’t encourage anyone to try and say too fast. Mark ‘General_Coxy’ Cox is Riot’s UK Head of Publishing and the driving force behind the company’s new London office, one of several satellite offices the company is …

The devleoper looks to shore up key positions amid rumours of a possible IPO

UK developer Sumo Digital has announced the arrival of five new members to its studio management team as it prepares to expand into new offices in Sheffield and Nottingham.  David Wilton joins the board as group CFO and will report directly to Sumo Group CEO Carl Cavers, while Gary Dunn …

The new Game Beyond Entertainment category will celebrate games that use the medium to inform, impact or engage in real world problems

Ukie hosted its second biennial Westminster Games Day in Parliament on Monday, in partnership with the All Party Parliamentary Group for Video Games, Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, Sega, EA and King. In attendance were over 24 MPs and peers and over 100 officials and researchers from Parliament, all of whom took …

This week’s news that EA has chosen to shutdown Visceral Games and its unnamed, narrative-driven Star Wars title is the talk of the games industry. Pretty much everyone, myself included, is in agreement that the game didn’t fit with EA’s strategy of capitalising on games-as-a-service titles (GaaS) which retain player interest for …