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The crucial Christmas buying period is upon us, and PS4’s flagship title continues to be arrested by severe technical problems. Developer Evolution continues to rollout what it describes as improvements and fixes, but gamers claim that key elements of its functionality remain broken. The studio itself admits that it still …

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Slender: The Arrival is heading to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Wii U platforms, fresh PEGI ratings suggest. The European content board rated the game 12-and-up for Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo’s latest console offerings – though the listed release date range of October 23-24 has been proven false. The listings …

Costume Quest 2 is heading to PS3 and PS4 this week, with the PlayStation editions offering an exclusive Sackboy costume. Publisher Midnight City details the title’s crossover with LittleBigPlanet’s protagonist on the PlayStation US Blog, adding that the game will launch October 28th on PlayStation console platforms in North America …

Strategy card game Scrolls is set to transition from open beta to full release before the end of November, developer Mojang has revealed. Speaking with Touch Arcade, Mojang’s Owen Hill explained that the Microsoft-owned studio’s third commercial effort (following Minecraft and Cobalt) should be out by late November – if …

Online giant turned platform holder offers advice based on the most successful games from its app store

Look, we don’t know if it’s an MMO or a MOBA, so don’t shout at us. That aside, however, SuperData research has named League of Legends as the world’s biggest MMO (or digital online game, as we’d probably label it) with year-to-date revenues of $946m for 2014, claiming 11.9 per …

Walmart-owned Supermarket chain Asda is being sued over alleged discrepancies between the salaries it pays to male and female workers. The BBC reports that several female employees in Asda’s distribution warehouses have raised the action, with over 10,000 staff having expressed an interest in joining the case. In some cases …

The Nokia Lumia is dead and has been replaced with the Microsoft Lumia. As revealed earlier this year, Microsoft is phasing out the Nokia branding on its Lumia phones in favour of using its own branding. And now this process has begun. We are looking forward to unveiling a Microsoft …