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Ubisoft has said that its smartphone experiment with the Just Dance franchise has been a big success. Free-to-play Just Dance Now has been downloaded over 6m times since its release on September 25th, and has been a particular hit in overseas territories such as India, Brazil and the Philippines. The …

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Bungie has insisted that it did not cut any content from shooter Destiny so it could sell it at an additional premium as DLC. Gamers last month discovered a way to access a number of placeholder names in the shipped game that appeared to flag up where additional content will …

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Developer Housemarque has confirmed that PS4 shooter Resogun is in development for Vita. The 2.5D shooter was a launch title on PS4 and was one of the console’s early flagbearers, much in the same way as previous title Super Stardust HD was on PS3. News of the Vita port first …

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Activision and GAME are this year allowing fans who queue up for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare at midnight to get the game a day earlier than everyone else. GAME will in the UK (much as GameSpot and Walmart are in the US) open the doors to 316 stores at …

If at first you don’t succeed try, try and try again. Nearly a year and half after the official collapse of his studio Silicon Knights, IGN reports that Denis Dyack has formed a new company – Quantum Entanglement Entertainment. And its first project will be Shadow of the Eternals, the …