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Sony’s latest PS4 exclusive has been unseated during its second week in Japan as another new Bandai Namco release shot to the top. According to the latest data from Famitsu, the week ending March 29th saw five new Bandai Namco entries in the software rankings, with Bloodborne crowned as the …

Five competitive Smite players have received professional suspensions of up to one year for account sharing, Hi-Rez Studios announced yesterday. The bans have affected players from four organisations in the Smite Pro League circuit, including two top-tier North American teams, Cognitive Gaming and Enemy eSports, and one European (Trig eSports). …

Sega has confirmed that Football Manager Classic 2015 will be released on iPad and Android tablets this week. The game, which is out at midnight on the night of Thursday April 9th, contains real-world clubs from 117 leagues from 51 countries and has been specifically optimised for touchscreens. The ‘Classic’ …

The Five Nights at Freddy’s series of horror games is being made into a movie. That’s according to Hollywood Reporter, who says that Warner Bros has bought the film rights to the horror series. So far there have been three entries in developer Scott Cawthon’s Five Nights at Freddy’s series, …

Level-5 has announced that two of its big upcoming titles will be heading to smartphones instead of portable consoles. Siliconera reports that Layton 7, the latest title in the Professor Layton series, and Fantasy Life 2 are both confirmed for a mobile release in Japan this summer on iPhone and …

Clickteam Fusion has been designed as a development environment for devs to build games and apps with little to no coding. The engine, available on Steam and through its own website, includes a custom written native runtime for iOS, Android, HTML5, Flash and PC, with Mac support also coming soon. …

Firm developing mobile app allowing users to access its store from their smartphones

Players of 2K14 are now once again able to access their single-player careers. Yesterday MCV reported that 2K’s activation of the game’s online servers had a particularly nasty side-effect – players found themselves unable to access their offline career progress as the way the game was built meant that the …

'The story really lends itself to being a movie and it taps into a largely unexplored niche of horror that a lot of people will be able to relate to,' says creator