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DeltaDNA: Whales don't respond to expensive items
New data shows that, "very expensive individual items or bundles will not make an impact" on monetisation
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China accounted for 31% of Unity game installs in Q1
The US was a distant second with 11 per cent of Unity's 4.2 billion installs
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FTC strikes a blow against Amazon in IAP lawsuit
US judge calls out, "millions of dollars billed to Amazon customers without a mechanism for consent"
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"The roadmap for a successful Nintendo console is unclear"
Launching the NX and delaying Zelda is the right call, analysts say, but Nintendo's place in the modern console market is not assured
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Nolan Bushnell inks three game deal with Spil Games
The Atari founder's first game is expected to launch in early 2017
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Minecraft makes its VR debut
The game John Carmack called his "grail" is now available for Samsung Gear VR
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Nintendo to sell majority stake in Seattle Mariners
Initial $125 million deal was struck in 1992 by legendary president Hiroshi Yamauchi
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Sony shipped 17.7 million PS4s in the last fiscal year
Operating profit for games up 84 per cent, while Network revenue doubled year-on-year
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CD Projekt wants to emulate "the Rockstar model"
The Witcher 3's success won't turn the company into a ten-project studio, says CEO Marcin Iwinski, but it has raised its ambitions for Cyberpunk
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Crytek launches Film Engine VR production tech
Creative director Jean-Colas Prunier brings VFX experience from Avatar, The Lord of the Rings and Guardians of the Galaxy
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Nintendo's tumbling profits underline need for new hardware
Fiscal year net income down 60 per cent; Wii U sold 3.26 million units in 12 months, could halt production by March 2018
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Nintendo NX will launch in March 2017
The console will be a "brand-new concept," and it won't make its debut at E3 - but new Zelda will
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UK games industry behind in female employment
Creative Skillset survey shows improvement, but games still had the lowest proportion of women of any Creative Sector industry
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PewDiePie asks fans to confront his "immature" past
YouTube has "grown past" insensitive use of language, but his community still pines for the good old days
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Paradox will offer 15 per cent of its stock in IPO next month
IPO will be done in the "Paradox way," focusing on, "employees, fans and the general public in Sweden"
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Kamcord raises $10m from Time Warner at $100m valuation
Mobile streaming platform is now looking beyond games with its new "app casting" feature
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Gameloft has closed its Spanish studio - report
French mobile publisher cuts another 18 jobs as remaining team at Valencia office are let go
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Ratchet & Clank unseats Dark Souls III as UK #1
But Star Fox Zero finished the week in sixth place
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ESL cuts ties with YouPorn sponsored eSports team
Regional laws against advertising pornography cited, ESL turned down Team YP's offer to rebrand
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Toca Boca acquired by Canadian toy firm Spin Master
Swedish developer amassed 140 million downloads in five years from its interactive toys for children
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"Gamers are bored... They're ready to spend on something new"
Jesse Schell has waited 25 years for consumer VR to arrive, and he has a few theories about how the market will take shape
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AMD's "design wins" point to new console hardware in 2016
More than $1.5 billion in revenue expected from three new products in AMD's console-focused Semi-Custom business
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Titan MMO's "horrific" collapse led to the creation of Blizzard's Overwatch
Game director Jeff Kaplan describes his team's, "ravenous hunger to show the world that we're not failures"
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"No matter how awesome Star Wars is, we don't need another one"
Ubisoft Montreal's Alex Hutchinson on how diversity in its many forms can lead to better games
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Don Daglow: "I'm calling bullshit on core, mid-core and casual"
Veteran developer believes restrictive marketing language stems from industry's outdated veneration of difficulty