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Take Two has joined the ever-growing list of publishers profiting from players’ increased hunger for digital content. The publisher has revealed that Grand Theft Auto Online – which was included as part of Grand Theft Auto V – currently has 8m weekly players. For comparison, EA’s Battlefield 4 and Battlefield …

The long wait for the arrival of DayZ on consoles just got a bit longer. "Alright everyone, let’s make this news stand out a bit: DayZ won’t hit the Xbox Game Preview program this year,” developer Bohemia has now said.The main focus of the DayZ team is the PC version, …

Bandai Namco has joined the line-up of publishers looking to meet with indie developers at next month’s Interface event. The firm will host meetings with developers alongside the likes of Channel 4 Games, KISS, Sold Out, Green Man Gaming and Double 11 who are all looking to sign new products …

The creator of Deadly Premonition and D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die has said that he is stepping away from games development for a while. Hidetaka ‘Swery65′ Suehiro’s career dates back to the late 1990s, although he’s best known for cult horror curio Deadly Premonition which was released in 2010. Starting …

Though most will know the studio for its work on the hugely successful Prison Architect, the history of Introversion Software makes for some very hard reading. The studio was started by a group of friends at Imperial College London: Mark Morris, Chris Delay and Thomas Arundel. Delay had been working …

We’re giving you the chance to win five tickets worth 249 each for you and your colleagues to attend London Games Conference, which takes place on Thursday, November 19th at the Congress Centre in London. All you need to do is read the conference programme listed below and answer this …

San Mateo team working on new IP and established NCSoft franchises

Their announcement may have been greeted with criticism, but players seem to be voting with their wallets and backing the content. VentureBeat reports that the game’s Silver currency, which is purchased with real cash, has hit the top five of the Paid Add-Ons sales charts for PSN in the US. …

Fractured Space developer targets Asia push

London, Manchester and Southampton will this month provide homes for three new stores from retailer GAME. The London (Westfield White City) and Manchester (Trafford Centre) outlets open today (November 6th). Anyone who shops in them at any stage in the next three days will receive an extra 1,000 Reward Points. …