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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

EA’s upcoming Rory McIlroy PGA Tour will not feature one of the most best-known courses in the golfing world. The iconic Masters tournament will not be making an appearance in the forthcoming golf title as the game cannot feature the Augusta National course, where the championship takes place. In a …

It turns out that Square Enix’s rumoured Deus Ex reveal was, in fact, just that. Originally teased in a cryptic ‘interactive’ teaser titled CantKillProgress, a new game in the cyberpunk RPG-shooter series was then supposedly leaked on NeoGaf, before being confirmed by Game Informer as its May cover. Deus Ex: …

Collaboration with Code.org aims to encourage children into programming with free tutorial

PlayStation Vita owners eligible in the class action lawsuit brought against Sony for deceptive advertising of its handheld have received instructions on how to collect cash, PlayStation Store credit, or free games. Polygon reports anyone that purchased a PS Vita in the US prior to June 2012 qualifies for a …

Magicka 2 will launch on PS4 and Windows PC next month, publisher Paradox Interactive has announced. The sequel to Arrowhead’s popular 2011 release will arrive on May 26th for the platforms. A Linux port is planned for later this year as well. With Arrowhead moving on, Pieces Interactive has taken …