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Former general manager leaves Crysis dev to become studio head at Improbable
Read More »World of Goo and Casey’s Contraptions devs team up for Subterfuge
New mobile game designed to be played in real-time throughout the course of a week
Read More »VIDEO: Backers get hands on playable Elite Dangerous code
Supporters of Frontier Development’s Elite Dangerous are now able to get their hands on a playable chunk of the game. The alpha offers a small taste of what the full game will offer, focusing on the mechanic that sees players redistributing power through three channels – weapons, engines and shields. …
Read More »Ridiculous Fishing and Badland named as Apple’s Games of the Year
Apple has named its editorial and commercial Games of the Year on iTunes. The editorial picks are Vlambeer’s Ridiculous Fishing as its iPhone pick with Simogo’s experimental Device 6 and PopCap’s Plants vs Zombies 2 as the runners up. In the iPad category Frogmind’s Badlands was named as Apple’s pick …
Read More »Here’s that £6,000 Xbox One you asked for
We’ve heard a few stories of folks paying over the odds on eBay to get hold of an Xbox One for Christmas, but this is something else. Well, if you’re still having a hard time tracking one down, there’s one currently available in Central London. And we’re pretty sure it’s …
Read More »Don Bradman Cricket 14 demo released, game delayed to 2014
Big Ant Studios has announced that it will not release Don Bradman Cricket 14 this year, but softened the blow by releasing a playable demo for the game. In order to bring the best possible game to the market at the best possible time, we have decided to move the …
Read More »Game4u to open stores within Hamleys in Delhi, Bangalore
Game4u will expand its retail operations this month with its first stores in Delhi and Bangalore. Like its store in Lower Parel, Mumbai, Game4u’s Delhi and Bangalore outlets will be shop-in-shop stores within Hamleys toy stores. Our decision to enter the Delhi and Bangalore markets is backed by the increasing …
Read More »PS2 to narrowly miss becoming India’s first million-selling console
The PlayStation 2 is India’s highest selling console by far, but with Sony having discontinued production earlier this year, it appears the console will narrowly miss hitting the landmark one million sales figure in the country. I would have loved it (if we could hit a million), but I think …
Read More »Valve releases SteamOS beta
Linux savvy developers can begin tinkering with the living room focused, Debian-based distribution now
Read More »Report: Gamers suffered 11.7m malware attacks in 2013
A new report from Russian internet security company Kaspersky Lab claims that gamers faced 11.7m malware attacks worldwide in 2013. As of the publication of the report, the firm had identified 4.6m pieces of gaming focused malware.” "We’ve just seen two of the biggest console launches ever, with the PlayStation …
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