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PS4 was once again the best-selling console in the US for the month of March. That takes its winning streak over rival Xbox One to 13 of the last 15 months, VentureBeat reports, with Microsoft’s only victories throughout that period coming in April and October 2015. Thank you to our …
Read More »NYU Game Center Incubator expands eligibility to every dev
Recent $450,000 investment from Empire State Development sees advocate for experimental games move beyond graduate-only applications
Read More »Sonic Team head returns to US to establish development ‘hub’ for franchise
Producer Takashi Iizuka originally helped found Sega Studio USA in 1999
Read More »Sega finalises purchase of Persona developer Atlus
Publisher to bring all of Japanese studio’s games to US from now on, but the two companies will remain separate entities
Read More »Nintendo and library unite to teach game design to kids using Super Mario Maker
‘We want them to learn the basics of level design, and start to think about the strategy and creativity that goes into creating games’
Read More »Carbine lays off staff as WildStar performance flags
Chinese launch of MMO cancelled as studio moves to focus on supporting ‘live game’ in US and Europe
Read More »Amazon GameLift comes to US, Europe and Asia, adds autoscaling
Devs can choose to automatically adjust server use according to player and game session count, plus other metrics
Read More »PS4 and Far Cry top February NPD rankings; Fire Emblem blossoms
February marked another sales victory for Sony’s PlayStation 4 in the US. VentureBeat reports that the result means that PS4 has outsold Xbox One for 12 of the last 14 months in the region, with Sony saying: We continued to see strong year-over-year sales growth for PS4 hardware and software …
Read More »38 Studios investors accused of fraud by US government
Wells Fargo Securities and the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation allegedly didn’t tell lenders of the risks of backing Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer ahead of collapse in 2012
Read More »Chinese ad giant Mobvista pays $25m for US mobile firm NativeX
Monetisation specialist counts Square Enix, Disney, King, Rovio and Machine Zone among its partners
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