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Company of Heroes 2 officially announced

THQ has officially announced Company of Heroes 2, confirming that Relic Entertainment is actively working on the warfare strategy sequel. The PC title was revealed a few days ago by a leaked cover from an upcoming issue of PC Gamer. Relic will utilize their own Essence 3.0 engine to develop …

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Alan Wake’s American Nightmare PC arrives this month

Remedy has revealed a PC version of its previously XBLA-exclusive title Alan Wake’s American Nightmare is hitting digital fronts this month. A product page popped up this morning for the title on Steam, and Remedy has since confirmed with Joystiq that the title will arrive on May 22nd via Steam …

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Portal 2 hits 4 million units sold, map editor DLC released

Portal 2 has sold over 4 million units since its launch, Valve has revealed. The company shared the figure for their first-person puzzler sequel during an interview with NeoGamr regarding the game’s map editor DLC. Speaking of which, that very same DLC has been made freely available for owners of …

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Sony to stream E3 press conference

Sony has announced it will stream its press conference at E3 2012 next month. The company has launched a site with a countdown clock to tune into during the event, which is set to start Monday, June 4th at 6 PM PT. Microsoft previously announced their conference would be streamed …

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E-Xpress offers iPad as preorder incentive for upcoming games

Indian game distributor E-Xpress Interactive has kicked off a preorder campaign for games releasing over the next three months. The games in this promotion include Max Payne 3, Spec Ops: The Line, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Lollipop Chainsaw, LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes, London 2012, and Darksiders II. Aside from …

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Namco Bandai profits rise 20%

Namco Bandai has generated gross profit of 1.3bn (167.5bn) for its financial year ending March 2012, but expects fewer games to arrive over the next 12 months. This represents a year-on-year increase of around 20 per cent. Meanwhile, net sales jumped 15 per cent to 3.5bn (454.2bn), and net income …

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The games industry needs a tiger

Richard Wilson, CEO of games industry association TIGA responds to criticism from Zee-3 and Pickford Bros co-founder Ste Pickford, arguing that there is value in being a member of a network of developers and digital publishers

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