Publishing

Konami announced today that the first playable demo of PES 2013 will be available on July 25th. The first demo will showcase new key features and lets gamers play with eight fully licensed teams. Available teams include England, Germany, Portugal, and Italy for European football and Santos FC, SC International, …

'As a small independent, paying so much money makes no sense at all', says studio

David Darling and Ian Baverstock also set to speak at London event

EGLS expresses shock at accusations that it ripped content for its latest mobile game

Sony’s Gamescom conference will take place on August 14th at 7PM local time (6pm our time). The event will take place at Staatenhaus am Rheinpark in Cologne. Sony tends to make big announcements at Gamescom. Previously, major games and hardware revisions have been announced at the show. Insiders suggest this …

Re:creation has confirmed the release of its hotly tipped Halo 4 die-cast vehicles. The Jada Toys collection will launch in the UK this august, with Re:creation handling distribution duties. The five die-cast vehicles include the Mongoose (12.99), Ghost (14.99), Warthog (19.99) and Banshee (24.99) from Halo 4, as well as …

Dead Rising 2 developer trims seven per cent of employees due to 'unsuitable fit with studio goals'

The next Ultimate Fighting Championship will be developed by the talent behind EA’s Fight Night titles. The publisher has confirmed that EA Canada is now working on the provisionally-titled EA Sports UFC, according to Kotaku. This will be the first UFC game published by EA after it picked up the …

Barclays and Goldman Sachs have been called into to help Vivendi secure the $8.1bn sale of Activision Blizzard, reports the Wall Street Journal. Vivendi’s share price shot up on reports it is looking to sell the Call of Duty and World of Warcraft publisher. Rumours that Vivendi was planning to …

Dawnguard, the first downloadable content for Bethesda’s 2011 epic The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, has finally made its way onto the Indian Xbox Live Marketplace. Last month, we reported that Dawnguard had skipped the Indian marketplace when it was released worldwide. Now, India users can finally purchase the DLC nearly …