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Japanese localisation pays off for leading mobile developer

EA Play4Free VP Sean Decker has joined Eve Online and Dust 514 developer CCP as senior VP of product development. In his new role, Decker will be responsible for leading the company’s worldwide game development and will oversee the company’s studios in Newcastle, Reykjavik, Shanghai and Atlanta. He will be …

Soomla CEO Yaniv Nizan examines how to balance your in-game economy

Free-to-play specialist Wargaming is delighted to be moving to Xbox – although it’s having to bite its tongue in the process. Wargaming’s CEO Victor Kislyi has confessed that he’s uneasy about certain elements of Microsoft’s ecosystem but says that he’ll just have to tolerate” it. "With Microsoft, unfortunately it’s not …

Compensation available to US consumers affected by unauthorised IAPs made by children

Nintendo is giving 3DS game Steel Diver a free-to-play makeover. It’s the first free-to-play game to come from Nintendo first party stable, although not the first to grace a Nintendo system – Namco Bandai outing Tank! Tank! Tank! went free-to-play on Wii U earlier this year. "There is something we’re …

Steel Diver announced as Nintendo's first excursion into untested waters

Supercell aims to break into new market with fully translated version of flagship title

Free-to-play Xbox One fighter Killer Instinct won’t have an expansive character roster. And rightly so, argues Microsoft. "Most fighting games that come out are disc based games where you get a huge cast of awesome characters, but it is a massive cast," Microsoft producer Torin Rettig told Polygon. "Some games …

Hit mobile game attracting just under one million users a month on average