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Kickstarter funded Android console Ouya’s first month on sale in the US has been given a lukewarm assessment by sales tracker NPD. "Retail sales for Ouya (not counting direct sales through ouya.tv) and were relatively light for a new console," NPD analyst Liam Callahan said, as reported by Joystiq. "This …

The $300 Oculus Rift headset could be free to everyone at some point, according to the hardware company’s CEO Brendan Iribe. Iribe told Edge that he views the device as its own platform, and hopes to strike deals with sponsors and other partnerships to help drive the cost down – …

The Summer Sale has made first impact on the top ten selling products chart for Valve’s service, with Civilization V and Borderlands 2 offerings making up nearly half of the list. Civ V’s latest expansion Brave New world finished ahead of BioShock Infinite for the top spot on this week’s …

It’s that time of year when PC gamers unite to buy cheap games, and then moan about having bought too many cheap games. The Steam Summer Sale is live. It’s set to run from July 11th – 22nd and there are plenty of deals on games right now. But that’s …

If you’ve been unable to participate in Steam sales due to your lack of access to a debit or credit card, a solution is near. Cybergames India has tied up with Valve to release prepaid Steam cards, or Wallet Codes as they’re called, in India. These cards work just like …

Valve’s idealised ‘flat management’ structure is not all it’s cracked up to be, according to one of the developers fired from the studio earlier this year. Hardware hacker and former head of Valve’s hardware division Jeri Ellsworth has characterised secretive Valve’s purportedly utopian structure as masking ‘hidden management’ cliques that …

Final Fantasy VII beat out upstart Rogue Legacy for the top spot on Steam’s latest top ten selling chart. Square’s PS1 classic roared up the sales chart this past week after launching late during the period. The game relaunched on PC last month through Square Enix itself, but just days …

Premium in-game items are being considered for World of Warcraft, according to a Blizzard rep. Community representative Jonathan Brown wrote on the possibility via Battle.net forums – specifically noting that only certain regions are being considered for the additions at this time. We are currently exploring the possibility of adding …

Nintendo has confirmed a breach of security on the Japanese version of the Club Nintendo website. Kotaku reports that the platform holder says it noticed a unusually high number of errors were noticed on the site on July 2nd, at which point it launched an investigation. That discovered that 23,000 …

Ubisoft sent out an email to Uplay users late last night, asking them to change their passwords following a breach of security. Reports suggest that hackers have been able to gain backdoor access to the Uplay store and have been able to download games without purchasing them. These include Far …