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Originally Posted by wraggster

Andrew Stalbow, Rovio general manager of north America, has given a rare insight into the company's player traffic, revealing thatAngry Birds has 30 million daily average users.
The vast figure would eclipse even the most popular game on Facebook, Zynga's CityVille, which according to AppData currently enjoys a DAU of 'just' 12.1 million. However, it's worth bearing in mind that Rovio's figure accounts for all versions released across multiple platforms.
Along with the DAU data, Stalbow

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Epic Games Korea has signed a licensing deal with publisher and developer Neowiz Games, that will see the use of the Unreal Engine in the studio's first MMORPG.
The game in question, Bless, is a medieval-inspired fantasy RPG featuring ten territories, each containing its own race, across two realms called Hierapolis and Cosmopolis. As you might imagine, the aforementioned realms are at war.
Neowiz's team of 150 have been working on the game since 2009, the results of which you can see

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Ken Levine, Irrational Games co-founder and creative director, has revealed that the company's new Bioshock title for Vita is still very early on in the development process.
"We're still sort of in the paper design stage," Levine told Joystiq.
He also spoke about the possibility of outsourcing the project to another development studio.
"To keep quality level, I wish I could say it was easy, it just tends to be more time consuming. It's just hard to find the right

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Sledgehammer Games' general manager Glen Schofield believes its third-person Call Of Duty project will be cancelled.
The studio is currently working on Modern Warfare 3, but, speaking to C&VG, Schofield said that the game's time period could be too "niche" to make continuing a viable option.
"We'll probably cancel it. They gave us the choice of: do you want to work on Modern Warfare 3, or do you want to continue working on this? And we really liked that," Schofield

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Sales of Future’s UK magazine portfolio have increased by a staggering 750 per cent since the release of Newsstand as part of Apple’s iOS5 last week.
AOP reports that the combined downloads of Future’s 50+ free and premium publications via the Apple store has passed the 2m mark in just four days.
It is not known how many of those customers also chose to subscribe to Future’s magazines.
“Future had sold more digital editions in the past four days through Apple’s Newsstand

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