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  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] London, 14th April 2021 - Miniclip, a world leader of market-defining mobile game titles, announced today the appointment of Stefan Beurier as Chief Financial Officer. He joins from Ascential plc, where he had been EVP,Group Finance, and has previously held finance leadership roles at The Economist Group, Bandai Namco, Expedia and Electronic Arts. Stefa...

Classifying Pay to Win Design in Todays Market by Josh Bycer on 04/14/21 10:53:00 am     The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.   The digital ink hasn’t settled yet on my fourth book, let alone my third, and I’m already planning b...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] QUÉBEC CITY – April 14, 2021 – Chainsawesome Games’ chaotic arcade party game enjoyed by more than 1.8 million players, begins the fight today on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One with Xbox Series X|S support, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.   Don a suit of armor and fend off all challengers with an armory of medieval weaponry ranging from s...

REQUEST A REVIEW CODE Barcelona, Spain. April14, 2021ndash;Temple Gates Games and BlitWorks are pleased to announce that the fast-paced and addictiv

Red Alert Online developer C4games through its Nuverse subsidiary for an undisclosed fee.  As reported by Reuters, the Chinese company, which owns and operates popular social media platform TikTok, purchased C4games as part of its push into the lucrative mobile games market.  The news comes a few weeks after ByteDance bought Shanghai-based studio Moonton Technology, best known for developing Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. Last year, Bloomberg reported that ByteDance had already purchased a numb...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] London, UK - 14th April 2021 - The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) is gearing up for a potentially record-breaking breeding season as keepers care for more Critically Endangered pine hoverflies than ever before at Highland Wildlife Park near Aviemore.   Led by the wildlife conservation charity since 2016, the pine hoverfly conservation bree...

Updated material and environment textures gives Rover Builder a complete visual overhaul.  Build amazing 3D vehicles from simple buggies to trucks, cranes and rocket powered rovers in the all new massive selection of parts, materials, weapons and more, design true mechanical systems simulated in real time.   In Rover Builder, you will be tasked with solving increasingly challenging missions by building the right rover for the job. From retrieve and return collection missions, to traversing d...

  “When we launch Call of the Tempestarii on all platforms today, we’ll reach a new defining moment for Warframe,” said COO Sheldon Carter. “Yes, we’ll take that very big second step into the next generation on Xbox Series X|S, but whats really driving this new content is the new Railjack. Railjack is maturing, growing more robust and becoming the dynamic space adventure we originally imagined it would become.”   Call of the Tempestarii and Discover Sevagoth Call of the Tempestari...

Call of Duty: Warzone since it launched.  That number comes straight from developer Raven Software, which said it remains "committed to rooting out cheaters and repeat offenders" across Call of Duty: Warzone, Modern Warfare, and Black Ops. The studio explained a large banwave took place on April 11, 2021, and that its security and enforcement teams continue to issue bans daily in a bid to catch offenders.  "The combination of daily bans plus large-scale banwaves are an integral focus of ou...

Total War developer Creative Assembly opens third UK studio ); } Total War maker Creative Assembly has opened its third studio in the UK as it continues to scale up. The company has grown by over 20 percent in the last year, and now has over 800 permanent employees on its books.  All three of Creative Assemblys UK studios, including the new West Sussex office, have been refurbished to support a more flexible post-COVID work model. The company has also relocated its Motion Capture facility to ...