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New York City’s Best Buy Theater has been renamed PlayStation Theater, Sony Computer Entertainment and AEG Live have announced. Originally named the Nokia Theatre Times Square when it opened in 2005, the 2,150 seat venue has been remodeled inside and out with PlayStation branding. According to Sony, the theater will …

NBA 2K16 has shipped 4m units worldwide across all platforms in its first week, publisher 2K Sports has announced. The figure is a record for the baksetball franchise. Digital sales have doubled the numbers of NBA 2K15 during the same period as well, with three times as many games played …

Introversion has revealed its popular in-development sim Prison Architect has made $19m in sales ahead of its official release. Founding director Mark Morris toldEurogamerthe game has sold 1.25m units as of September 26th– with official launch scheduled for today, October 6th. Introversion initially put an early alpha version of Prison …

The often poisonous population of Reddit has led to the site’s owners launching a new portal that eradicates its central principle – user comments. Wired reports that Reddit will tomorrow launch Upvoted. It will still source its content from Reddit, and thus will offer a mix of what many of …

CEO Martin Wahlund on building BitSquid, selling it to Autodesk and making the move to self-publishing

The League of Legends World Championship finals are to be simulcast by the European Gaming League at London’s O2 arena at the end of this month. League’s climactic ending to this year’s season has already begun with the group stages in Paris, and is soon to head onto the quarter-finals …

Disney Interactive has officially ‘retired’ a huge number of iOS and Android games. By ‘retiring’ them’ it means affected titles will no longer receive content updates or support, and there will be no refunds for any in-game expenditure players may have invested over the years. Games of note include The …

Apple has again topped Interbrand’s Best Global Brands list, although gaming icon Nintendo has failed to feature for first time ever. The Wii U and 3DS platform holder just scraped into the 2014 listings in 100th place having featured 67th and 56th in the two previous years. Interbrand Japan CEO …

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