Developer announces Android payment model as game passes 50 million lifetime downloads.
Rovio, developer of massive-selling mobile title Angry Birds, will be introducing a simple in-app purchasing system to its game.
First bundle raised almost $1.3 million and can now be activated on Steam.
Earlier this year some 140,000 people bought the Humble Indie Bundle, and a second is now on the way, according to a post by John Graham on the Wolfire Blog.
Call Of Duty: Black Ops still number one in the UK Top Sellers Buzz chart, but Gran Turismo 5 is rising.
Call Of Duty: Black Ops has retained the top spot in this week’s UK Top Sellers Buzz chart, collecting 28,018 mentions (a drop of just over 11,500 since last week). Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood has been knocked down to third place by Gran Turismo 5, whose 17,604 mentions turned the tables and beat Brotherhood’s 9532 by some margin.
Square Enix apologises, reshuffles dev team, promises improvements.
PS3 owners hoping to get their hands on Final Fantasy XIV next March will be disappointed by Square Enix’s decision to postpone its release. The company has not provided a new date, saying it will only release the game when it is satisfied with it.
Polyphony driving sim back in pole position after unseating Black Ops.
Gran Turismo 5 is back on top of the Nordic all-format software chart, which covers Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden in sales of combined SKUs, for the week ending December 5, with last week's chart-topper Call of Duty: Black Ops dropping back to second place.
Apple lists the most popular iPhone and iPad apps as well as its own favourites.
Apple has announced its year-end iTunes Rewind, a selection of lists detailing the most downloaded offerings on the US App Store. It also reveals its own apps of the year for iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad.
Chris Donlan heads back into the gloom with two very different dungeon crawlers.
The company behind Kinect's 3D sensor opens up Kinect and other devices for use on different platforms.
PrimeSense, developer of the technology used in Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral for Xbox 360, has released open-source drivers for its sensor and set up a new organisation to promote Natural Interaction (NI) devices, applications and middleware.
Good news all round in the latest NPD report.
The NPD Group has released its US hardware and software sales report for November 2010.
Flying in the face of concerns that sales would be lower than last year, US shoppers spent their way to a new record. Total software and hardware retail sales for the month were $2.99 billion, a new high for the month of November, beating November 2008’s numbers by $30 million. NPD does not currently provide figures on the digital download market.
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FIFA Ultimate Team's $45m just the beginning.
EA has predicted that one fifth of its projected revenue for the current fiscal year will come from digital sales, according to CFO Eric Brown.
Brown made the revelation at UBS’s 38th Annual Media and Communications Conference in New York on Wednesday, reported by Gamespot. Digital business could bring in as much as $750 million if his projections prove correct.
We will be featuring a full expose of Naughty Dog's latest in our next issue.
Up front of a reveal at this weekend's VGAs, Naughty Dog has released a teaser trailer for Nathan Drake's latest adventure, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.
Id, Ensemble and Trilobyte veteran Graeme Devine plans to return to game development.
The man responsible for ensuring games released for Apple devices play well has left the company to return to game development, according to Kotaku.
Capcom's new Monster Hunter title behind an increase of 400 per cent.
Japanese PSP sales grew by over 400 per cent in the week to December 5, a staggering rise mostly attributed to the release of Monster Hunter Freedom 3 for the system.
As we reported on Monday, the latest installment in Capcom’s franchise was typically well-received in Japan, with the publisher claiming to have sold two million units in the game’s first week on sale.
Japanese developer working with Mistwalker on Wii RPG.
AQ Interactive is developing The Last Story for Nintendo with Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker, according to the latest in the Iwata Asks series as translated by Andriasang.
Reveals Starcraft II expansions, Diablo III and Titan releases.
Documents containing MMOG giant Blizzard’s plans for 2010 to 2014 have leaked onto the internet, detailing a release schedule containing expansions for Starcraft II, the long-awaited Diablo III and a new game, codenamed Titan.
Publisher extends its casual portfolio to Apple's mobile devices with a free app that's available from today.
EA’s bid to strengthen its reach into the social gaming sector continues to gather pace with the firm bringing its Pogo brand to Apple mobile devices, reports Bloomberg.
As the current crop of consoles reach old age, we look at where PC gaming can go next.
Industry professionals asked to register their vote.
The organisers of the Game Developers Choice Awards have announced that nominations are now open for next year’s awards. Last year’s ceremony saw Naughty Dog walk off with half the awards on offer for Uncharted 2.
Claims use of his likeness in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
A former backup singer with 90s hip-hop overlords Cypress Hill is suing Rockstar Games, claiming the firm used his likeness for the central character Carl "CJ" Johnson in its 2004 game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, according to a court filing spotted by IGN.
Mobage-town developer under investigation for unfair competitive practices.
Japanese social networking firm DeNA Co saw its share value drop by six per cent - the biggest one-day drop the Tokyo Stock Exchange has seen in two months – after admitting it was under investigation by regulators.
Kristian Segerstrale says that developers should monitor excessive player spending.
Kristian Segerstrale, founder of social game developer Playfish, has stressed the importance of consumer trust in Facebook games if the sector is to continue to prosper, suggesting developers need to monitor excessive player spending.
UK-based retail giant reports dwindling sales with pre-owned now accounting for 25 per cent of revenue.
Europe’s largest specialist gaming retailer, Game Group, has announced a drop in sales revenue of almost 15 per cent in an interim management statement.
Millionaire City creator boasts of 4.2 million daily active users.
Social games developer Digital Chocolate claimed earlier today that it had jumped into fourth position in daily active users among Facebook game makers, according to data collated by AppData. Since then, the company jumped back one place to fifth, having been overtaken by close rival PopCap.