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Konami has refuted recent reports that the company is largely moving on from developing console releases, claiming titles for franchises including Castlevania, Metal Gear and Silent Hill are very much in development. In a statement toNintendo Life, a customer support representative explained thenotion that the company plans to move strictly …
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Read More »Square Enix pulling Final Fantasy VII G-Bike support in December
Final Fantasy mobile spin-off FFVII G-Bike will shut down later this year, Square Enix has confirmed. Gematsureports the studio will pull support of the iOS and Android release on December 15th, with money-based sales of in-game currency ending on October 13th. Although we were pushing forward with discussions until now, …
Read More »Dead Space and Real Racing among 23 mobile games killed by EA
Apps to be pulled from sale with no more updates in the future
Read More »Scottish game industry employs over 1,000 full-time game devs
Scotland is home to 97 studios, with over half developing for mobile and tablet
Read More »Award-winning mobile game 80 Days sets sail for PC later this month
Hit iOS and Android title 80 Days is coming to PC and Mac in an expanded and revamped form. Inspired by the iconic Jules Verne novel Around The World In Eighty Days (rather than the god-awful 2004 Steve Coogan/Jackie Chan movie effort), from which it takes its moniker, 80 Days …
Read More »Niantic Labs bringing free-to-play Pokemon game to mobile
Location-based title coming to smartphones next year
Read More »Mobile game Pokémon Go to bring pocket monsters into the real world via GPS
A new app claims to finally achieve the dream of every child of the 1990s: make the world of Pokmon a reality. Of course, having an electric mouse and psychic ghosts run around the streets of London is a little outside the realm of possibility, but free mobile game Pokmon …
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