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When you peruse the list of games coming out this year, it’s fair to say that a title based on a Japanese comic series probably isn’t the first thing you jump to. Launching in the same Autumn period as FIFA, Pro Evo, Skylanders, LEGO Dimensions, Metal Gear Solid, Forza, Mad …

Twitch has released an infographic showcasing the video broadcasting network’s viewer engagement during E3 earlier this month. The site brought in over 21m unique viewers throughout the week surrounding the event, with 840,000 peak concurrent viewers. That’s up significantly from 12m unique viewers and 400,000 peak concurent viewers last year. …

Mojang is no longer developing content for its card-battle strategy game Scrolls, with the studio confirming plans to shut down servers in 2016. In a post on the Scroll’sofficial website, the Microsoft-owned company explained that the its second full release received its last major content update earlier this month. "After …

Valve has announced the ‘get it early’ stock for its upcoming batch of Steam hardware releases is sold out. Pre-ordering to receive the Alienware Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Link on October 16th is now closed, though pre-ordering for the official launch date of November 10th has begun in …

Free-to-play 3DS title Pokemon Shuffle is to receive a release on smartphones. Pokmon Shuffle Mobile is in development now and is due for release by the end of the year. It will, like the console version, be free-to-play. Shuffle has been a big hit on 3DS reaching 4.5m downloads, although …

It looks as if the new 1TB PS4 will be priced the same as the current model – so does that mean Sony is going to cut the price of PS4 in line with Xbox One? As spotted by Videogamer, both GAME and Amazon are listing the new console for …

The Star Wars title in production at Visceral Games is apparently along the same lines” as the cancelled Star Wars 1313. 1313 was unveiled in the summer of 2012, but was killed off when Disney acquired LucasArts a year later, closing LucasArts in the process. The title had looked to …

A second of Nintendo’s highest profile executives has said that Nintendo is not convinced by the current virtual reality boom. "The current types of virtual reality aren’t really a good fit for Nintendo’s philosophy of trying to create entertainment that people can play together in the living room," development boss …

Naughty Dog scrapped eight months of work on Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End followingAmy Hennig’s departureto Vicseral Games, the actor who plays Nathan Drake has claimed. Speaking atMetrocon, as spotted onNeogaf, Nolan North said the team had been shooting Hennig’s story, but it was all thrown away” when The Last …

‘They got rid of some of the other people that were involved and just redid their thing,’ says Nolan North