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Mobile game spend will double to $105 billion by 2021
App Annie's forecast shows massive gains for games over five years, with China representing 41% of all spending on mobile apps
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Nintendo Switch reaches 500,000 sales in Japan
Media Create data puts four-week total ahead of PlayStation 4
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Tribeca Film Festival adds game focused event
Tribeca Game Festival is organised in partnership with Kill Screen
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Gree: Escaping mobile's middle-class
Andrew Sheppard on the growing dominance of mobile's richest publishers, and Gree International's $35 million bid to close the gap
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Square Enix expands Final Fantasy XIV's free tier
MMO can now be played for free until level 35
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App Store developers can now respond to user reviews
Curiously absent feature will allow devs to acknowledge user issues and discuss solutions
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Facebook hires Apple design chief as head of hardware for Oculus
Michael Hillman left Apple as chief architect of all consumer desktop products
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Mad Catz to be delisted over "abnormally low" share price
NYSE has already started a process, and Mad Catz does not intend to appeal
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Kickstarter reaches 10,000 funded games
A total of $613 million has been pledged by 2.46 million people
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Take-Two adds education specialist to board of directors
LaVerne Srinivasan holds two senior roles at the Carnegie Corporation in New York
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Tencent cleared $10 billion game revenue in 2016
Chinese company pulls away from rival publishers with new and old hits and Supercell acquisition
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Australian senator urges censors to "leave gamers alone"
Denying Outlast 2 a certificate sends a message of "censorship, disapproval and discouragement"
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Linden Lab adds Bing Gordon to its board
Veteran EA executive will arrive ahead of the full launch of social VR platform Sansar
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Mass Effect Andromeda: Critical Consensus
Mixed reviews point to larger issues than facial animations for Bioware's sprawling and visually spectacular blockbuster
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Netmarble to raise $2.4 billion with an IPO
Around $1.3 billion will be used for deals and acquisitions as Korean publisher strides towards global top five
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DotEmu to close retro-leaning online store
French company says "competition is fiercer than it used to be" in PC distribution
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Uncharted 4 collects another GOTY award at SXSW
Naughty Dog's haul amounted to five trophies, Overwatch trailed with four
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Machinima appoints new GM as CEO prepares for exit
Warner Bros. marketing exec Russell Arons will step up after Chad Gutstein leaves to pursue "entrepreneurial projects"
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Alibaba investing $145m in global network for mobile games
Chinese online giant forms "Global Strategic Alliance of Game Distribution" with four international companies
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Nintendo set to double Switch production - report
Total raised to 16 million units for next fiscal year, on expectation of 10 million sales
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King's chief legal officer joins Improbable
Rob Miller hired after five years at King, Michael Bannon appointed CFO
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Appodeal buys Corona Labs
Mobile ad firm brings maker of Corona SDK in-house, will add enterprise version to current free options
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Unlicensed eSports gambling sites are "parasites feeding off popular video games"
UK Gambling Commission's official paper gets tough on rise of skin gambling in eSports
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Zynga buys four Solitaire games for $42.5 million
Harpan's two-man team is richly rewarded for its social card titles
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Outlast 2 refused classification in Australia
The demo to Red Barrels' sequel was granted R18+ certificate, but the full game will not be released in its submitted form