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Final Fantasy mobile spin-off FFVII G-Bike will shut down later this year, Square Enix has confirmed. Gematsureports the studio will pull support of the iOS and Android release on December 15th, with money-based sales of in-game currency ending on October 13th. Although we were pushing forward with discussions until now, …

Super Meat Boy is at last making its way to PlayStation hardware next month, developer Team Meat has announced. The hit indie platformer will arrive on PS4 and Vita with all previously released content on October 6th, according to its PlayStation listing. The game will be offered as a free …

Tickets for this year’s Games Media Awards are available now. These tickets are primarily for non-media. Journalists will be able to attend the event for free, and will be invited along once the finalists have been announced next week. The event takes place at the Bloomsbury Ballroom in London. Tickets …

The low-cost tablet market has undergone a big shakeup with Amazon’s announcement of a new Fire tablet that costs just 49.99. Called simply ‘Fire’, the Android device has a 1024×600 seven inch screen, 1GB of RAM, 1.3 GHz quad-core processor, and both front (2MB, 720p, HD video) and rear facing …

Game streaming is about to go mobile. YouTube has announced that it is to introduce game streaming to its Android app at some as-of-yet unspecified point in the near future. The feature, which was announced at The Tokyo Game Show, is being pitched in part as an effort to appeal …

Apple’s WatchOS 2 was supposed to be out yesterday. But as owners will likely have noticed, that isn’t the case. The iPhone and iPad creator has delayed the rollout of the new OS thanks to a bug that is taking longer to iron out than previously thought. We have discovered …

Developer Ys Net has embarked on yet another crowdfunding campaign for RPG sequel Shenmue 3. The game has already raised $6,333,295 Kickstarter, but the studio has opened what it calls a ‘Slacker Backer’ period designed to encourage those who didn’t pledge first time around to add their cash to the …

Develop heads deep into the Swedish woods to find out exactly what is going on

We don’t know how many games consoles have been sold in China – but the noises coming from Sony suggest it isn’t as many as had been hoped. SCE CEO Andrew House has told Reuters that the region’s famously strict censorship rules have proved a hurdle for PS4 in the …

Hardware revenue expected to exceed $4bn