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Xbox One will last "conservatively 10 years" says Microsoft
Canadian marketing head says new console is outpacing Xbox 360 preorders 2-to-1, no worries about a Red Ring of Death repeat
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Square Enix back in the black as a new era dawns
All studios will shift focus to mobile and online titles with variable pricing models
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Ubisoft Montreal: Convincing a AAA studio to try "indie" games
Patrick Plourde explains how he got his indie-styled Child of Light off the ground at the outfit behind Assassin's Creed and Watch Dogs
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Trials and Error: How RedLynx is Building a Hardcore Brand
The Helsinki studio hopes to balance mass market, mobile, console and core with new Trials games
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Sparking a generation of game designers
Project Spark's Soren Hannibal says the industry is at risk of losing out on software engineers if it can't make learning to code easier
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Escaping The Shooter Mold: How Oxide Plans to Revive The RTS
We talk with new dev Oxide about its Nitrous engine and the rise of multi-core
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Mobile evolution will make today's market irrelevant
Free-to-play specialist Teut Weidemann says disruption of smartphones is just getting started, AAA already out of fashion
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Qualcomm: "We're never going to build a chip that's faster than a console"
Mike Yuen calls for mobile devs to look beyond touch, and sees a bright future for Android-based big-screen gaming
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GungHo stock plummets after Q3 results
Q-o-Q declines see share price fall by 20 per cent in two days
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Sony loses $8m on games as overall business cuts forecast by 40%
Exchange rates hide some of the story as corp prepares for Q3/4
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Losses increase at Glu Mobile to $7.8m
Third quarter sales also down as publisher expects full-year loss of $11m
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Monster Hunter 4 rescues Capcom's six-month results
3 million sales in a month lifts revenue and profit for Japanese publisher
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Sponsored | Is it worth making launch titles these days? [Sponsored]
With new consoles we see mostly well-known brands, and some new IPs from first party, but indie devs like Bloober Team might have a huge impact on next-gen
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Indies: Market early and often or "sink into obscurity"
Antichamber dev Alexander Bruce says exposure "is becoming more and more the dominant problem" for indies to solve.
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Wii U sold under 500k in six months
Nintendo reveals "negative impact" of console in six-month financial report, scrapes a profit due to exchange gains
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Grand Theft Auto V: 29 million shipped
Take-Two touts record $1.27 billion second quarter on strength of Rockstar Games' latest; Borderlands 2 hits 7.5 million shipped
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EA boosts digital revenues in Q2
Publisher loses $273 million but games like Plants vs. Zombies 2 and Real Racing 3 continue to bring in huge digital sales
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Critical Consensus: Assassin's Creed takes to the sea and comes adrift
Black Flag's seafaring impresses the critics, but the series is in danger of losing its identity
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Indie market far from saturated, says Campo Santo dev
Mark of the Ninja designer Nels Anderson discusses why rising tide will lift all indies, and how mobile has become hostile to small devs
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Rumble CEO: Tablets will be the clear winner of the console war
Nexon invests in Rumble Entertainment as it closes a $17.5 million second round of funding.
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Critical Consensus: Battlefield 4 highlights the gulf between current and next-gen
"Levelution" works, but the Xbox 360 and PS3 have been outclassed
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Apple sells 33.8m iPhones, 14.1m iPads in September quarter
Thanks to the new iPhone 5s, Apple's iPhone sales grew by 26 percent during the fourth quarter
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Going Indie: "I'm more scared of staying in AAA right now"
New studio founders who've ditched the AAA console space talk about their experiences and strategies as they've become indies
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The Trouble With Trying To Write Positive Female Characters
Ubisoft Quebec's director of narrative design prefers "juicy and real" roles, credits Mass Effect, Gone Home, and Last of Us with doing it right
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Critical Consensus: Arkham Origins delivers more of the same
Warner Bros' Montreal hews closely to Rocksteady's template, the critics offer an uncertain thumbs up