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Read More »Sony hires Greg Rice and Christian Svensson
Niantic moves to shut down creators of Pokemon Go cheat app
The cease and desist wants to prevent "unauthorised derivative versions" of its games
Read More »Submissions now open for gamedev.world, a new, free, multilingual, global dev conference
Almost 10,000 developers have already signed up
Read More »Resident Evil 2 ships 3 million in 4 days
Capcom remains "firmly committed to satisfying the expectations of stakeholders"
Read More »Global gaming industry expected to generate $135bn by end of 2018
Console gaming spend up 15.2% YoY
Read More »Global games industry warned to self-regulate loot boxes ‘before it’s too late’
"The sledgehammer is coming whether we like it or not"
Read More »IGDA calls for global games industry to take action on loot boxes before governments ‘take that action for us’
"Addressing how loot boxes are used is both the right thing, and the smart thing"
Read More »Phones to outnumber humans by the end of the year
There are almost more mobile phones on the planet than there are humans, according to a new report. There will be 7.3 billion mobile phones on the planet by the end of this year, up from six billion now, claims a study by theInternational Telecommunications Union. Comparatively, the United Nations …
Read More »Messi given FIFA 15 cover star role
World Cup Golden Ball winner Lionel Messi has unsurprisingly been named as the global cover star of FIFA 15. He’ll likely be joined in the UK by a couple of others who are yet to be named. We’d vote for Rickie Lambert and Emile Heskey, although arguably Wayne Rooney is …
Read More »eSports viewing almost doubled in 2013
New numbers suggest the boom in eSports is showing no sign of abating. Gamasutra reports that IHS Technology data suggests 2.4bn hours of eSports were viewed throughout 2013. That’s nearly double the 1.3bn watched in 2012. Furthermore, it estimates that this will have climbed to 6.6bn hours by 2018, by …
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