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Read More »Connecticut town paying residents to destroy violent video games
The tragedy of the Newtown school shooting is at risk of claiming another undeserved victim – video games. Polygon reports that residents of Southington, a small community around 30 miles from the site of last month’s horrific shooting, has launched what it is calling The Violent Video Games Return Program. …
Read More »158 days – the Xbox 720 countdown begins
The fist shot in the next-gen console battle has seemingly been fired. Microsoft’s community voice Major Nelson has, without any hint of explanation, gone live with a countdown on his blog that leads up to E3. The only text included is thus: And it’s on…” Having at one stage planned …
Read More »Fez branching out to new platforms
Hit Xbox Live isometric platformer Fez is to go multi-platform this year, developer Phil Fish has revealed. Summing up his year in game development with Polytron, the indie said he had listened to a number of fans asking for the title to be ported to other systems, although he did …
Read More »UK Govt launches microsite for games tax relief
Tories ask for industry feedback on development subsidies
Read More »LEGO unveils trio of Chima games
Having only officially launched on Boxing Day, LEGO’s Chima brand is to expand with three video game releases this year. Notably, however, none of them are for home consoles. LEGO Legends of Chima: Speedorz is a racing title that will launch on LEGO.com today and iOS tomorrow (January 3rd). LEGO …
Read More »Torchlight 2 reaches 1m digital sales
Runic’s digital isometric RPG Torchlight 2 has sold over 1m units. "We had an amazing 2012, and proud to say that Torchlight2 has sold over one million units! Thank you! Happy New Year’s Eve everyone :)," a tweet from developer Runic confirmed. The milestone was reached just three months after …
Read More »Capcom unlikely to port back-catalogue to Wii U
Recent releases Resident Evil 6, Street Fighter X Tekken and Okami HD are unlikely to be ported to Wii U. That’s because Capcom has revealed that it is not currently planning on re-releasing any of its recent titles on Nintendo’s hardware. When asked on the Capcom Unity blog whether or …
Read More »Tories launch video games tax breaks microsite
The Conservative Party has launched a microsite explaining the reasons why it believes the UK video games industry is worthy of a tax break. The coalition’s gaming tax breaks will come into effect on April 1st and could see dev costs slashed by 25 per cent for those projects that …
Read More »Apple to skip iPhone 5S and release iPhone 6 this year?
Rumours suggest that Apple might drop its iPhone 5 design completely and launch a fully-redesigned iPhone later this year. PCR reports that app developers have noticed references to iPhone6,1” in their dev logs, as well as references to iOS 7. This is the same pattern that appeared before the announcement …
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