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Valve has revealed Steam’s top selling titles for the week ending on April 20th, with the HD update of Age of Empires II beating out Bioshock Infinite for the second week in a row. Valve’s Portal franchise made a big splash during the period, thanks to a major discount promotion. …
Read More »Heavy Rain cost $52m, made Sony over $130m
Heavy Rain may have cost a pretty penny to make, but the investment turned out to be more than worth it for Sony and Quantic Dream. Eurogamer reports Quantic Dream’s Guillaume de Fondaumiere revealed total figures for the PS3 exclusive during a talk at Digital Dragons in Poland. The CEO …
Read More »Tim Langdell’s ‘Edge’ trademark revoked
Legal saga comes to an end two years after Mobigames and EA cases
Read More »MCV AWARDS 2013: Relive the highlights here
Couldn’t make the MCV Awards last night? Worry not – you can check out everything you missed right here. Hundreds of UK games industry execs headed to the London Lancaster Hotel for this year’s ceremony. The evening kicked off with a special performance from Games on Song, the choir formed …
Read More »Amplitude: Console manufacturers must cut the paperwork
Leaving responsibility with devs is needed to improve openness, says Romain de Waubert
Read More »Jodie gets top billing on Beyond: Two Souls cover art
Sony’s Beyond: Two Souls will see lead character Jodie Holmes take centre stage on its cover art. Why is this relevant? Because as the name suggests Jodie – played by Ellen Page – is a female. That shouldn’t maater, obviously, but sadly it does. And before you start jumping on …
Read More »Apple’s tablet market share tumbles 10% in UK
While the iPad may still be able to lay claim to dominion over the UK tablet market, the growing popularity of Android tablets has led to a ten per cent dip in market share for Apple, according to YouGov’s Quarterly Tablet Tracker for Q1. The report shows that Apple’s market …
Read More »Curiosity update allows users to RESTORE cubelets
Please, Peter, just tell us what’s inside the ****ing cube? Peter Molyneux’s 22Cans release Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube was released in early November 2012 and we’re still none the wiser as to what life changing” secret is contained within. Amazingly, the game’s latest update now offers the chance for …
Read More »Resident Evil creator reveals The Evil Within
Survival horror to be first title from Shinji Mikami's studio Tango Gameworks
Read More »Bethesda reveals Resi creator’s new game – The Evil Within
The Evil Within is the next game from Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami and it’s being published by Bethesda. It’s being developed by Tango Gameworks and is described as a survival horror. That’s about it, for now at least. Expect a deliberately controlled PR trickle of more information over the …
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