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The developer of DarkBase 01 has pulled his game from Valve’s Steam service and left in its wake a message attacking the games community. As spotted by Kotaku, developer Solar Storm’s Greenlight title had been the subject of some heavy criticism from users of the service. Yesterday the game’s Steam …

This year's ceremony is approaching fast – be sure to book your place

The original game in the EarthBound series has been released digitally on the Wii U. Nintendo announced during the weekend’s Nintendo World Championships that the official English translation of NES title Mother is now available in the West for the first time under the name EarthBound Beginnings. The game was …

Trade body teams up with platform holder to explore ways to grow your business

It would undoubtedly be the moment of E3 2015, but can we even dare to dream of a possible Shenmue 3 announcement this week? Oh, why not? Let’s just indulge ourselves shall we? Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki has posted something on Twitter that if not alluding to a Shenmue 3 …

Bethesda's Todd Howard calls sequel 'the most ambitious and detailed game world that we have ever made’

Original game also being remastered for Xbox One and PS4

Steam hosted more than ten million concurrent users for the first time in its history yesterday. Valve’s digital store smashed its previous record of 9.5m set just last month. The rush of new users has been spurred on by the latest summer sale on the marketplace that has seen deep …

Bethesda.net to serve as portal for all of Fallout publisher’s titles

Oculus Rift, Project Morpheus, Steam Vive – VR is a crowded market, but yet another new headset contender was revealed last night. Payday developer Starbreeze has announced Project StarVR which it describes as the IMAX of VR gaming” due to its increased field of view – 210 degrees of horizontal …