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Consumers now have two ways to help fund the ‘spiritual successor’ to cult GameCube title Eternal Darkness. The controversial project went live with its own crowdfunding platform last week. It was subsequently revealed that Precursor Studios’ T&Cs allowed them to spend all ‘donations’ on whatever they liked with no legal …

Increased costs and diminishing returns – for many that was the story of this generation. And it’s not something that Take-Two wants to repeat. Chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick has told investors that he wants his publisher to be the most efficient in the business as the industry prepares to …

Blizzard is to hand over the profits generated from a recent bug in the Diablo III Auction house to charity. The popular PC dungeon crawler allows players to trade in-game items for real-world cash. However, a recent patch introduced an exploit that allowed users to multiply their cash reserves. The …

Futuristic open-world action title Watch Dogs has been handed a touch of extra realism thanks to Kaspersky Lab. The anti-virus firm has apparently been working with Ubisoft to ensure that the hacking – a gameplay mechanic central to the title – works in a believable fashion. Players will in the …

Various strategic reforms” are on the way for Square Enix after the company confirmed a year of losses for the 12 months ending March 2013. Although net sales climbed 15.7 per cent for the period, an operating loss of 6,081m and a net loss of 13,714m was reported. That compares …

EA Sports EVP Andrew Wilson scores big by cashing in

South Korean game company boosted by Gloops acquisition

Publisher hopeful platform diversity is increasing business opportunities

Energy Hook raises $7,000 by second day despite low funding target

Football Manager, Aliens: Colonial Marines and Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed each exceed 1m in sales