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Nintendo has announced a price drop for Donkey Kong, Peach and Yoshi amiibo figures. The toys – previously priced at $12.99 each – are now available for $9.99. All three characters ranked in the lower half of the top 10 best-selling amiibo in North America. New versions of Peach and …

The Games 5s five-a-side tournament is back on May 21st after its successful revival last year. The contest will pitch teams from games publishers, developers, retailers, media and elsewhere in the business against each other. Last year, Testology walked home with the winner’s cup – have you got what it …

Rockstar has announced a third delay for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V. The game had at one stage been due out alongside the PS4 and Xbox One titles last November, but was subsequently pushed back to January 27th. However, this was then changed to March 24th. Now …

The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones developer Telltale Games has received significant investment” from film giant Lionsgate. The deal sees Lionsgate’s CEO Jon Feltheimer join Telltale’s board. The move is designed to extend the entertainment company’s properties into the video games sector and to allow for co-development of both …

The manufacturer of SteelBook products, Scanavo, will serve as Table Gift Partner for this year’s MCV Awards. We at Scanavo are excited to experience how well the SteelBook concept has been adopted by the new console era," said Mads Buch Nielsen, international area sales manager for the packaging specialist. "We …

Yes, that’s a quarter of a million pounds. What on earth could GAME and Techland possibly be offering that they think could entice an individual to pay 250,000 for a copy of Dying Light? To quote from the press release verbatim: Finally, for those looking to take Zombie protection to …

Nintendo has confirmed that it will release a selection of eight new cover plates for the New 3DS in early. April 2nd will see the release of designs featuring red and green Toad, Kirby, Pikachu, a number of alternative colours and a dot pattern. There are currently around a dozen …

We look at the franchises of the future that will be competing for glory next week

It has been revealed that the figurehead of GamerGate’s escalating extremism is a spoof character designed to mock the movement. In an interview with BuzzFeed, 20-year-old Jan Rankowski admits that the character ‘Jace Connors’, who shot to fame after crashing his car supposedly en route to attack Brianna Wu (the …

Amplitude Studios reveals how it used Unity to power its latest title