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Lionsgate taps Kabam to create the next Hunger Games mobile tie-in
Lionsgate taps Kabam to create the next Hunger Games mobile tie-in
Social games company Kabam is working with Lionsgate to produce a mobile RPG based on the Hunger Games movies in advance of the next film's November release.
May 30, 2014
IndieCade partners with Sony and Ouya to bring indie games to E3
IndieCade partners with Sony and Ouya to bring indie games to E3
Bounden, Hohokum, and Double Fine's Hack N Slash are among the games that will be showcased at IndieCade's E3 pavilion in June.
May 30, 2014
Watch a Unity developer demo the new UI system for Unity 4.6
Watch a Unity developer demo the new UI system for Unity 4.6
The long-awaited upgraded UI system didn't quite make it into the latest 4.5 update, but it's almost ready -- enough to showcase it in a nearly half-hour long demo.
May 30, 2014
Twitch taps Steam's metadata to make streams more searchable
Twitch taps Steam's metadata to make streams more searchable
Twitch is working to make its library of livestreams more searchable using metadata gleaned from games, starting with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
May 29, 2014
Zombie Studios creative director departs to join MLG
Zombie Studios creative director departs to join MLG
Major League Gaming has hired Zombie Studios' Jared Garritzen (Blacklight: Retribution) to serve as the company's new vice president of publishing and developer relations.
May 29, 2014
Sony switches up PlayStation Plus, with 2 free games per platform a month
Sony switches up PlayStation Plus, with 2 free games per platform a month
Sony has revealed that starting in June, each platform it currently supports with PlayStation Plus -- PlayStation 4, PS3, and Vita -- will get two free games a month.
May 29, 2014
Major game magazine publisher Future to cut websites, 170 staff
Major game magazine publisher Future to cut websites, 170 staff
As part of a major restructuring effort, the publisher of Edge, PC Gamer, and GamesRadar aims to cut staff, sell off magazines, and consolidate its editorial teams.
May 29, 2014
Nix Hydra nets $5 million in funding for mobile games for women
Nix Hydra nets $5 million in funding for mobile games for women
The two-year old Los Angeles studio has scored 9 million downloads for Egg Baby -- and now millions of startup dollars.
May 29, 2014
EA shuts down Mythic Entertainment
EA shuts down Mythic Entertainment
The MMO studio (Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online) and creator of the much-maligned mobile Dungeon Keeper reboot has been shuttered, EA confirms.
May 29, 2014
GDC Europe 2014 adds talks on League of Legends and going indie
GDC Europe 2014 adds talks on League of Legends and going indie
Game industry veterans Don Daglow and Teut Weidemann are two of the latest additions to the speaker lineup for GDC Europe 2014, which takes place in Cologne this August.
May 28, 2014
GDC launches this year's State of the European Game Industry survey
GDC launches this year's State of the European Game Industry survey
In order to record the state of the game business going into GDC Europe 2014, organizers are polling all European game developers for their thoughts on the future of the industry and their place in it.
May 28, 2014
Microsoft has no plans to sell off its Xbox division
Microsoft has no plans to sell off its Xbox division
"I have no intent to do anything different with Xbox than we are doing today." - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says that, despite calls from some investors to sell off the Xbox division, he currently has no plans to do so.
May 28, 2014