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A second Fable game will arrive this year over Xbox Live Arcade. As rumoured over the weekend, Fable: Heroes is a side-scrolling hack and slash adventure aimed at a broader audience than the series’ traditional adult fanbase. It was revealed at Microsoft’s Spring Showcase held in San Francisco last week. …

Developer 343 admits it is under pressure to get the return of Halo 4 right. The studio has taken over Halo development duties from series creators Bungie. It was responsible for last year’s remake of Halo: Anniversary Edition and the online service, Waypoint. Yet this year’s Halo 4 is the …

Indie development legend and millionaire Markus ‘Notch’ Persson is to be awarded with the Special Award at the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards on March 16th. The Swedish creator of Minecraft shot to fame through his first independent project – Minecraft. Initially released in beta form in 2009, the …

Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions pirated

12 characters due to be released as DLC on the console versions of Street Fighter X Tekken are already residing on owners’ discs, it has been claimed. The upcoming PlayStation Vita version of the brawler is due to arrive with 12 additional characters not found on the Xbox 360 and …

With the PS Vita now competing with Nintendo’s 3DS on the world stage, how are these systems faring against each other and the rest of the portable consoles on the market? An inforgraphic by research firmStatista, as reported byVenturebeat, compares first week sales between Nintendo’s portable systems and Sony’s Vita …

Having made somewhat of a splash on iOS, EA has pulled licensed title The Simpsons: Tapped Out from the App Store. The publisher blames the overwhelmingly positive” reaction to the game, which has put its servers under a lot of pressure. To ensure current players have the best possible experience, …

Cave’s debut title for Windows Phone 7 will be released in just two days. Andriasang has confirmed a March 7th release date for DoDonPachi Maximum. It will retail in the country for 435 (around 3.40) and be available via the handset’s Xbox Live Marketplace. As has been the case with …

Publisher reportedly unable to finish development of MiCoach due to layoffs

A report in yesterday’s edition of The Express has claimed that the directors of struggling retailer GAME are considering pulling the plug” on the entire business. This is because many at the highest levels of the chain now fear that insolvency has become inevitable” as it continues to negotiate deals …