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Clash of Clans publisher Supercell has lifted the lid on its third title – Boom Beach. The game, which is currently in beta in Canada and Australia, will be released on iOS in March and on Android some time after that. "We’ve made some risky choices,” Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen …
Read More »China’s Sungy Mobile acquires Getjar
Third party app store provider Getjar has been acquired by Chinese firm Sungy Mobile. VentureBeat reports that the cash deal was worth $5.3m. Conditional share offers could see that value climb to over $50m. Sungy, which went public three months ago, is best known for its range of Go Android …
Read More »eBay pulls Flappy Bird smartphone listings
Listings for phones and tablets carrying the now-deleted Flappy Bird have been pulled from auction site eBay. The Guardian reports that users who had listed such items are being told that they violated the site’s T&C’s. Smartphones and tablets must be restored to factory settings before they are allowed to …
Read More »Microsoft re-affirms PC gaming commitment
We’re really going after PC” – that’s the message from Microsoft as it (once again) pledges itself to PC gaming. So we love PC,” Microsoft Studios partner creative director Ken Lobb told Rock Paper Shotgun. It’s obviously a source of huge revenue for Microsoft. The reality is that in years …
Read More »Hip-hop star Nas to feature in Microsoft TV series
Microsoft’s Xbox Entertainment Studios is making a TV series about the life of rapper Nas. Deadline reports that the Electric City Entertainment produced show is called Street Dreams and is being written and directed by Jonathan Levine. It’s set in Long Island, New York and will last half an hour. …
Read More »Purple and black Xbox 360 chrome pads on the way
Microsoft is adding two new models to its Xbox 360 chrome joypad range. Two SKUs – one purple and the other black – will be released at the beginning of March in the US for $54.99. There are some exclusivity deals in place, too, with the purple model being stocked …
Read More »PS4 gets £20 price cut
The PS4 has received its first price cut of note by one UK retailer. GameStop is currently offering a solo PS4 pack – including console and controller – for just 329.97. That’s 20 off the normal selling price. Last month Zavvi cut 20 off the price of the Xbox One, …
Read More »Lionhead transforming into a ‘games-as-a-service’ studio
The upcoming Fable Legends is the first step in a process that is transforming Lionhead into a games-as-a-service studio” according to its new boss. John Needham, a veteran of Gazillion Entertainment and Cryptic, was named as Peter Molyneux’s successor at Lionhead in April of last year. Now he plans to …
Read More »Terry Cavanagh releases Flappy Bird tribute Maverick Bird
Super Hexagon and VVVVVV creator Terry Cavanagh has released a free Flash tribute to the ill-fated Flappy Bird. It’s called Maverick Bird and adds Cavanagh’s trademark brutal and simplistic visual style to Dong Nguyen’s one-button twitch gameplay. It also features a track called Vietnam by electronic music artist Kozilek And …
Read More »Radiohead release experimental smartphone game
UK despair specialists Radiohead have released what is described as an experimental mobile game” on iOS and Android. CVG reports that the game, called PolyFauna was made in collaboration with UK design firm Universal Everything and sees players traversing a succession of abstract environments. Player creations from within the game …
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