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Zynga backs away from US online gambling
Sales tumble 31% in Q2 as social company warns investors of "more volatility than we would like" over the next 6-12 months
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Gameloft first-half sales up 15%
Mobile publisher reports smartphone and tablet efforts now make up more than half of revenues, expects full-year sales up at least 12%
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Xbox One: Microsoft must prove its indie commitment
Developers and analysts give their take on the significance of everything Microsoft has--and hasn't--said about its new next-gen policies
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Platform holders and indies: Handy tips from the developers
Peter Molyneux, Jenova Chen, Mike Bithell and more offer their advice to Sony and Microsoft
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Blizzard, SOE vets form Molten Games
New San Diego-based studio looking to combine free-to-play and AAA with millions in funding from NCsoft
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Apple: iPhones up, iPads down
31 million smartphones sold is a new quarterly record, but Apple's revenues were flat while profits and tablet sales dipped
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EA earnings flat in Q1 as digital sales continue to rise
Mobile titles like The Simpsons: Tapped Out and Real Racing 3 boost digital, as Origin accounts hit 50m, 22m of which are mobile
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Critical Consensus: Pikmin 3
Pikmin 3 has all the charm and polish one would expect, but can it sell a system?
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GameStop exploiting devs and consumers, says Ready at Dawn boss
Ru Weerasuriya on fighting back against used games, and why he's launching The Order 1886 exclusively on PS4
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Game consoles' sluggish sales demand a price cut
NPD numbers show hardware is hurting; time for the Big Three to cut prices in advance of the holiday season
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Game Developers' New Covenant
Sergey Titov on the challenges of surviving a new age of development and how studios must "form a marriage with gamers"
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CBS Interactive "Playing Aggressively" in eSports
We talk to CBSi's SVP and the new VP of eSports about their media strategy
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Xbox Live helps boost Xbox division revenues 8% in Q4
Microsoft shipped fewer Xbox 360s but Xbox Live transactional revenues grew by 20%
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Ubisoft sales down 42% on tough comp
Publisher beats Q1 target with digital and catalog growth, but had no new releases to match last year's Ghost Recon Future Soldier
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Patrice Desilets: Lessons from 15 years in AAA
In this video from the Gamelab conference, the creator of Assassin's Creed reflects on his career and the future of the games industry
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Working at the Candy Store
King designer Tobias Nyblom on keeping the Candy Crush Saga players sweet
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How World of Tanks Is Revolutionizing Xbox
Why console gaming may change forever, and what Wargaming is planning with Chris Taylor
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PS4, Xbox One and the Quest to Escape The Uncanny Valley
Square Enix's Julien Merceron sees the new consoles allowing for better AI, more believable characters in games
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Michel Ancel: Connect, Share, Create
The veteran developer shares his thoughts on the definitive trends of the next generation, and the vital importance of connected play
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Digi-Capital: Disruptive mobile and a growing market
Games monetise four times more effectively that all other mobile app types combined, says investment bank
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The Psychology Behind Steam Trading Cards
How your mind processes a trading card system and the mental tricks at play in Valve's latest addition to its digital marketplace
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Shadowrun dev prepping return to Kickstarter
Harebrained Schemes' Mitch Gitelman on what went right, what went wrong when fans could see "how the sausage gets made"
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Games vs. Guns: How the ESA outspends the NRA on lobbying
Former NRA and MPAA lobbyists talk tactics, explain the ins and outs of political clout, and why official numbers don't tell the whole story
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Ubisoft: "We won't even start" a game if it can't be a franchise
Tony Key discusses why marketing budgets are expanding and how Watch_Dogs connects to the NSA scandal
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Xbox One: Julie Larson-Green May Fit In Just Fine
Columnist Chris Morris examines what the new Xbox chief means for Microsoft as it launches its biggest product of the next 10 years