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Candy Crush Saga studio King is pushing to generate $530m (319m) in an initial public offering that would see the British game maker valued at up to $7.6bn (4.6bn). 15.5m shares for in the company will be made available for between $21 and $24 a piece when King floats on …

Masahiro Sakurai has outlined has admiration for Sony’s PS4. I don’t care for faction wars like Nintendo versus Sony,” the Smash Bros director told Famitsu, as translated by Gematsu. PlayStation 4 is good-looking, the DualShock 4 is light and using it feels good, Remote Play can reliably handle even action …

Epic showcases its game development powerhouse running ‘near-natively’ on a web browser

The studio developing Watch Dogs didn’t want to reveal Watch Dogs way back at E3 2012. Speaking to Edge magazine, as reported by Videogamer, creative director Jonathan Morin said Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot was the mean pushing for the early reveal. "They forced us to go at E3 2012," Morin …

Konami has offered an extra incentive for PS3 owners to pre-order the digital version of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. As detailed on the PlayStation Blog, European consumers who pre-order the game on PSN will receive a free digital copy of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD. Note the …

Maplin UK is offering Microsoft’s Xbox One console for the same price at Sony’s PS4 – 349.99. When the Xbox One launched in November it had a price tag of 429, but a number of cuts have been introduced in recent weeks. However, Maplin’s deal is the first time it …

Titanfall’s US launch was last night disrupted after a short stint of Xbox Live downtime. Microsoft’s console network experienced what the platform holder described as limited” service for around five hours last night, leaving many gamers unable to take EA’s new multiplayer shooter online. Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hyrb confirmed on …

PlayStation was the only console brand to increase its video games sales last year. According to ERA based on GfK Chart-Track data, the number of PS4, PS3, PS2, Vita, PSP games sold last year was 11.4m, an increase of 1.8 per cent over 2012. These games combined generated 372m, a …

Atman Binstock leading R&D team at new Seattle base

Never one afraid of pushing technological boundaries, developer Polyphony Digital has added multi-monitor support to Gran Turismo 6. The support comes as part of the game’s 1.05 patch and can be implemented in the display options menu. Other additions include alterations to the menus, extra filtering options in the car …