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Minecraft has landed on yet another platform this week, as the Microsoft-owned property is now available for Windows Phone devices. The Pocket Edition of the game – out already on the Apple App and Google Play stores – can be purchased on the Windows Phone store for $7. Though it …

Valve has detailed the Steam Holiday Auction, a limited time event allowing users to trade community items like Trading Cards for full games including Civilization: Beyond Earth, This War of Mine and more. Starting this coming Monday, Steam account holders can trade in unused items for Steam Gems that can …

Xbox One has outsold PlayStation 4 for the first time in the US, according to NPD’s latest monthly report. Microsoft’s console navigated took the top spot in November’s hardware category, thanks in no small part to strong Black Friday sales. "November set a new record for sales of Xbox One, …

It’s probably fair to say that the response to PS4 Drawn to Death has been mixed. At best. The game was revealed at Sony’s PlayStation Experience event earlier this week and was quickly leapt upon by assorted internet commenters. Now in a video posted on David Jaffe’s personal YouTube channel, …

Having revealed title just earlier this year, Paradox has scrapped PC and console RPG Runemaster. After much internal debate we have made the decision to freeze development of the project until further notice and move the development team working on it to other projects within Paradox Development Studio,” COO Susana …

Studios will do battle in Surrey's county town on Wednesday, February 18th

Mirror’s Edge studio EA DICE is relocating, and in doing so leaving the Stockholm building that has been the team’s home for close to ten years. The move was revealed byGamesIndustry, which reports that DICE will transfer both its games development and Frostbite engine divisions to a new base in …

Project now 'making progress under completely new conditions'. So PS4, right?

Meaningful development of The Last Guardian appears to be occurring, according to its creator Fumito Ueda. Kotaku reports that Ueda, who left Sony in 2011 but continues to work on the game, told Dengeki that "talks with Sony Computer Entertainment on The Last Guardian have been ironed out, and we’re …

Have they? Haven’t they? The mystery continues regarding Nintendo’s plans for the long-term future of some Amiibo figures. One retailer last week tweeted that the Marth, Wii Fit Trainer and Villager Amiibos had been discontinued, with the platform holder later confirming that other figures likely will not return to the …