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34 games out of the Top 40 had an increase in sales week-on-week following Amazon Prime Day
Read More »Amazon Prime Day boosts games sales 41% week-on-week
Google and Amazon invest in ‘conversational’ voice-controlled game developer, Doppio
"We believe that we can create captivating, popular gaming experiences that simply can’t be achieved elsewhere"
Read More »The Pokémon Company partners with Tencent for more Pokémon games
No further details are available at this time, though
Read More »Gaming revenue down 10%, with a 48% drop in hardware sales, as Xbox enters a transitional period for console business
Gaming revenue and Xbox software and services fall by 10% and 3% respectively
Read More »Former Witcher devs announce Different Tales, a new ‘storytelling’ studio exploring the idea of ‘slow gaming’
"We aimed to create something different"
Read More »Sega and Interior Night ‘have amicably parted ways’
"Interior Night is a really talented studio but Sega decided not to continue with that project"
Read More »Sunny days at the BGI – organisation gains charitable status as NVM launches ‘Summer of Buttons’ exhibition
BGI hopes to build on its charitable status to access more funding to extend its programmes and collaborate with more partners
Read More »When We Made… Yooka-Laylee
We take a look behind the scenes at the development of Yooka-Laylee. Playtonic talks about the challenges of building upon Banjo-Kazooie’s heritage and having 73,000 people looking out for everything you do
Read More »Out of the home, out of this world: life on the commercial frontier of VR
Location-based operators are now the frontline of VR adoption. We speak to one such operator, Centre VR in Bournemouth, about its learnings from running VR games day-in, day-out on the south coast
Read More »G2A says it will develop a new ‘key-blocking’ tool if indies are prepared to use it
"We are aware that this proposal doesn't solve all the issues," the company said
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