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Back in 2013, Capcom launched what it hoped would be a major new action series. Remember Me was a unique, cyberpunk story-driven triple-A game from new French developer Dontnod – a studio set-up by former Criterion, EA and Ubisoft creators. The team had spent almost five years on the game, …

Turkish developer Peak Games is suing Hasbro as they claim that the recent My Little Pony: Puzzle Party game copies their game Toy Blast. According to VentureBeat, Peak Games filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco and have alleged that Hasbro’s Backflip Studios have taken their …

Telltale doesn’t make games like other people. It doesn’t begin a game with a prototype or concept art, instead it starts with a script. We don’t produce a game visually until we feel we have completed the script,” explains Job Stauffer, the head of creative communications at The Walking Dead, …

German publisher Gameforge has laid off a fifth of its employees and is pulling out of the mobile games market. Gameforge CEO Alexander Rsner told MediaBiz that mobile development had not been as lucrative or successful as the company had expected. He said that the PC free to play market, …

Pokmon Go is getting its first seasonal event, in the form of the Halloween update that will increase the spawn rates of spooky critters. Starting on October 26th spawn rates for spooky Pokmon will increase. These Pokmon include the likes of Gastly, Gengar, Haunter, Zubat, Golbat, Drowzee and Hypno. While …

A series of patents filed by Nintendo may offer up a look at some unannounced features for the Switch. Over the last few months Nintendo has filed a number of patents that seem to relate to the recently announced Switch console. The drawings in the patents seem to show the …

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The new season of the Call of Duty World League will kick off on December 16th 2016 with the start of MLG Las Vegas. The competition will feature top North American teams battling it out for a share of the $100,000 prize pool at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas …

If you ever needed proof that the strategy genre is anything but niche, take one look at Civilization. It’s a deep, complicated turn-based strategy franchise that has sold in excess of 33m copies in its 25-year history. The most successful was Civilization V with 8m games sold to date. The …