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Free-to-play shooter Warface will be co-published by developer Crytek and Trion Worlds. The latter is best known for its popular MMORPG Rift, and is currently working on MMORTS End of Nations, which launches this September. Crytek announced Warface back in 2010. The online shooter centres around both co-operative and competitive …

Fans of Sony’s acclaimed racing series Gran Turismo may have to wait until the next console for a fresh outing. Series designer Kazunori Yamauchi that developer Polyphony Digital is already hard at work on GT6 and has been since GT5 was finally released in 2010. "We’re always aiming for the …

Despite reporting better than expected quarterly earnings, Facebook took a beating on the stock market yesterday. The reported Q2 earnings of $1.18 billion was slightly above expectations, but those had already been lowered prior to the launch of the company’s IPO. A net loss of $157 million for Facebook’s first …

An unknown number of employees at Warner Bros. Seattle have been laid off. This is the second time in as many years the studio has seen job cutbacks, and it is rumored that as many as 60 employees have been affected. The office houses multiple studios, including Monolith Productions, Snowblind …

UPDATE: We’ve investigated the actual patent, and it turns out this isn’t about a ‘game controller’ on its own at all. Click here to read the new story. ORIGINAL STORY: Despite the company’s preference for touch and gesture control, Apple has researched dedicated games controllers. A patent published yesterday shows …

A number of developers depart due to 'shifting business imperatives'

For the past month, the only way you could play Skyrim’s add-on Dawnguard was to own an Xbox 360. Clarifying news from Bethesda confirms that could be the case for much longer. The game’s debut DLC made it out for 360 owners in late June, but the announcement mysteriously omitted …

Retail giant Gamestop is taking a good, long look into reselling digital content, according to CEO Paul Raines. Speaking in Grapevine, Texas this week, Raines shared his thoughts on his company exploring their options with secondhand digital game sales as the industry continues to trend away from boxed retail. It’s …

CD Projekt Red is apparently looking into multiplayer for one or more of its upcoming efforts. A job listing from The Witcher dev seeking a multiplayer programmer was spotted earlier today by CVG. It implied that at least one if not both of the studio’s upcoming projects, futuristic RPG Cyberpunk …

Apple patents that have surfaced online show a game controller similar to the PS3’s Dualshock controller. The proposed controller would work with iOS devices such as the iPad and iPhone, as well as Apple TV. The patent further states that the diagram showing the controller is a schematic of a …