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UK firm could win trip to Richard Branson's Centre for Entrepreneurship in South Africa

It seems that World of Warcraft is regaining some of its previously lost users ahead of its next big expansion. Blizzard announced during its latest earnings calls that its MMO had seen subscriptions jump by over 600,000 ahead of the release of World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor on November …

Former developer relations exec now working with indies at Microsoft

Android community prepares for UK event later this month

First-person medieval combat title Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is coming to last-gen consoles. Originally released on PC two years ago, Torn Banner Studios’ game will make its transition to PS3 and Xbox 360 on October 29th. The game saw up to 36 players battle it out online with swords, bows and …

Upcoming Tetris update Tetris Ultimate will launch next month on Nintendo 3DS, publisher Ubisoft has announced. The 3DS version includes four single-player Challenge modes: "Master" has Tetriminos drop instantly and appear at the bottom of the screen, "Rotation Lock" randomizes the orientations of the Tetriminos and freezes them in one …

New images of the upcoming Minecraft-themed Lego sets have leaked, courtesy of Russian Lego retailer Mir Kibikov. Shacknews reports on the retailer’s accidental” leak of the new line prematurely, which reveals images of six upcoming Minecraft Lego sets – including The First Night, The Mine, Workbench, Dragon Edge, The Cave, …

Peggle 2 is available today for PlayStation 4 owners in Europe and North America, EA and PopCap have announced. The sequel to PopCap’s popular casual title offers single-player offline play, as well as local mutliplayer and two online multiplayer modes with support for up to four players. Peggle 2 had …

Latest point release adds ray traced shadows, dynamic shadows on mobile and GUI designer

Google chairman Eric Schmidt believes that Amazon is its biggest search competitor. In a speech in Berlin, Schmidt pointed out that internet users are likely to go directly to the retailer when shopping, stating: Many people think our main competition is Bing or Yahoo. But, really, our biggest search competitor …