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David Braben has said that Frontier is re-assessing some of the refund requests it declined in the wake of Elite: Dangerous’ online U-turn. The company earlier this week faced a backlash for dropping the game’s offline mode but yesterday said it would only refund customers who had not yet already …

Warner has released some free new DLC for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor that replaces Ranger Talion with a playable female lead. The female in question is Lithariel, the Warrior Commander of the Tribesmen of Nurn and the daughter of Lady Marwen. Players can select the optional skin from the main …

US High Street games retailer GameStop has confirmed that its stores will be closed on Thursday November 27th for Thanksgiving. Many US retailers will typically open on Thanksgiving to kick off their Black Friday deals a day early. Black Friday is one of the biggest American shopping days and typically …

A more stringent set of requirements has been put in place for games released via Steam’s Early Access service. A number of high-profile Early Access disasters previously led to Steam altering its customer guidelines, but Giantbomb reports that the terms presented to developers have now also been tweaked. The new …

Develop sat down recently with Michal Platkow-Gilewski, Head of Marketing and PR at CD Projekt Red, to discuss the virtues of handling PR internally at a development studio.

Debbie Bestwick presents the Worms team’s top advice for going cross-platform

The name of the next Need for Speed title has been revealed – but it’s the platforms that it is in development for that’s of the most interest. EA has revealed Need for Speed: No Limits, which is coming soon” to smartphones and tablets. Furthermore, it’s being made by Firemonkeys, …

Xbox One has smashed the one million sales barrier in the UK, MCV can reveal. It’s hit this number after out-selling PlayStation 4 for three weeks in a row, UK retailers have told us. The numbers are based on their GfK Chart-Track reports. The resurgence in Xbox One sales has …

Mozilla has struck a deal with Yahoo to make the latter Firefox’s default search engine on desktop and mobile. This means Yahoo will replace Google, which has been the Firefox default for a decade. In conjunction with the announcement, Yahoo has said that it will roll out new search functions …

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the biggest entertainment launch of the year – that’s the headline from Activision’s long-awaited sales press release. Some nine days on from the release of the game, Activision has revealed only that the shooter has beaten the sales of any other game, movie, album …