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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 …

A new search algorithm implemented by Google last week has seen the traffic on some major torrent sites more than halve. TorrentFreak reports that sites that have received high numbers of copyright takedown requests have now been demoted in Google’s search results. The result is that a number of the …

There’s yet another PS4 hardware bundle available in the UK, this time from Very.co.uk. As spotted by Videogamer, the SingStar Ultimate Party bundle includes a console, controller, copy of the game and a PlayStation Camera for 399.99. There’s no need for microphones this time, of course, as the game allows …

Online retail leader Amazon has posted an operating loss of over half a billion dollars for Q3 2013. The total of $544m is over 20 times more than the loss posted in the same period last year. Net losses reached $437m – up ten times year-on-year. Revenues, however, grew 20 …

Back in February Green Man Gaming was helping independent developers. The online retailer was offering the studios a route to market, uploading their games to its store and promoting them to its PlayFire community. But now Green Man Gaming is fully committing to publishing games, opening a dedicated digital-only arm …

‘Retro table top racing’ is to make a return on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC with Codemasters’ new title Toybox Turbos. Although the publisher doesn’t reference the Micro Machines IP by name, it does say that the title features gameplay that reflects Codemasters’ fondly remembered miniature racing titles of the …

Plus remote working, self-publishing and other things you might not know about releasing games on Wii U and 3DS

Xbox boss Phil Spencer admits that the reasons behind Xbox One’s lengthy installation times remain a little unclear, although he’s determined to address them. Spencer told IGN, as reported by GameSpot, that while the Xbox One in some instances installs games faster than PS4, for many titles the installation times …

Platform holder stresses that sales policy has changed since controversial WiiWare clause