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2K Games has released a new teaser trailer for Borderlands 2, showing off the wildlife players will be called on to slaughter this September. The sequel to the 2009 role-playing shooter gives players the choice of four new characters, each with a deadly special skill –demonstrated in the new footage, …

Not content with admitting for the first time that 3D ain’t all dat”, Nintendo boss Saturo Iwata has also confessed that smartphones and tablets HAVE changed the games industry. Although not as much as many observers believe, of course. I don’t think this is a central factor,” he told The …

Nintendo president Saturo Iwata has for the first admitted that the firm’s focus on 3D visuals for the 3DS will likely not be repeated with future machines. Now we’ve created the 3DS and 3DS XL and also have some games out there that are really using that 3D effect that …

The first trailer for Activision’s video game take on the Walking Dead series has received its first trailer. The game is being developed by Terminal Reality and will be released on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC some time in 2013. It’s the second time a developer has attempted to adopt …

Develop Conference: 'I was very worried about the move to 3D', says Development Legend winner

2.1m games were sold at retail last month – a drop of more than 40 per cent compared with June 2011. In total, stores generated 48.4m from software sales throughout June, down 38.2 per cent from the 78.4m made during the same period last year. The biggest new release of …

The insatiable online rumour mill is once again questioning the viability of John Riccitiello’s position at the top of EA. Rumours of discontent emerged yesterday when US analyst Michael Pachter claimed that Riccitiello had confessed to him that he feared for his job, adding that the exec doesn’t understand what …

Games industry pioneers of all shapes and sizes won Develop Awards last night. A gala ceremony in Brighton was attended by over 550 people from 150 companies, where they saw the likes of Moshi Monsters, Dear Esther and World of Tanks handed highly-coveted awards. Now in its tenth year, the …

Amazon has announced GameCircle, its own answer to rival services such as Apple’s GameCenter and Microsoft’s Xbox Live. GameCircle will offer Kindle Fire devs the ability to integrate achievements, trophies and leaderboards. Where it goes one better than its rivals, however, is its Sync function that stores game saves in …