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Activision hope to tap into China’s lucrative mobile gaming scene
Read More »Activision and Tencent are working together to deliver a Call of Duty mobile game to the Chinese market
UK gets new multiplayer outsourcing studio
The Multiplayer Guys, based in Nottingham, will help with online implementation
Read More »God of War and PS4 drive solid Q1 growth at Sony
The PS4 has sold 3.2m units during the quarter, alongside 40.6m games - 43 per cent of which were digital downloads
Read More »When We Made… Hollow Knight
Team Cherry’s co-directors Ari Gibson and William Pellen explain how going for a hand-drawn, insect-themed title was a way to avoid some challenges and reveal their inspirations for Hollow Knight – and, no, Dark Souls is not one of them
Read More »Rami Ismail, Unity, We Happy Few and Good Shepherd headline MCV’s Gamescom issue
Also featuring Julian Gollop, Coatsink, Soedesco, Team Cherry, Ustwo and much more
Read More »The Escapist Magazine is to relaunch, with former EIC Russ Pitts at the helm
"Politics at the door" claim has attracted widespread criticism
Read More »Jo Twist announced as chair of BAFTA games committee
She'll replace outgoing Nick Button-Brown, who held the post for two years
Read More »GOG: Classic console games ‘might be possible’
GOG, a DRM-free marketplace for PC games that sells a mix of modern and classic titles, has said that classic console games could be a possibility on the service, but it’s a legal problem rather than a technical one. “I think it might be possible at some point,” Marcin Paczynski, …
Read More »Are city-builders having a renaissance?
Surviving Mars and the long-running Cities Skylines are both selling faster than a new-build semi in the southeast, so is the city-building genre having a renaissance?
Read More »Hangar 13 on Brighton’s development legacy and the studio’s triple-A future
Every month in Fresh Meat we check in with a new and upcoming developer. This month we chat to Hangar 13’s Brighton studio head, Nick Baynes, and VP of development, Andy Wilson
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