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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 …

Four licences available to developers depending on project type and team size

New company to work on games, film and TV

Project canned six years after game was first unveiled

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 …

An Xbox One Slim could already be in the pipeline at Microsoft, a new report claims. Eurogamer reckons that AMD has developed a smaller, cooler and – crucially – cheaper version of the CPU at the heart of Xbox One. The new chip is based on 20nm as opposed to …

Playground Games takes second spot as First Touch Games claims third place

Bethesda has confirmed what the entire industry suspected to be true – Prey 2 has been cancelled. "It was game we believed in, but we never felt that it got to where it needed to be – we never saw a path to success if we finished it," Bethesda vice …

There are $83m worth of unsold Fire Phones sitting in Amazon’s warehouses, with the retailer admitting that it miscalculated its first smartphone launch. We didn’t get the price right,” Amazon’s senior VP of devices David Limp told Fortune. I think people come to expect a great value, and we sort …