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Amazon Game Studios has revealed a trio of new games for its parent’s Fire platform, and has teamed up with some familiar names. UK studio Frontier Devleopments – known, of course, for Elite: Dangerous and upcoming Xbox One exclusive ScreamRide – is working with AGS on Tales From Deep Space, …

It looks like Nintendo’s latest handheld has got off to a strong start in its traditional heartland. Famitsu data posted on Neogaf says that the New 3DS sold 230,000 units in the week ending October 12th. Of that 172,332 sales were of the larger New 3DS LL model and 61,151 …

Sony’s latest PlayStation hardware has now landed in North America. PlayStation TV offers access to a decent number of Vita, PSP and PS Minis titles, as well as game streaming from the PS4. However, Joystiq reports that a last minute software update to the device has broken compatibility with a …

Publisher Bandai Namco has expanded into Malaysia, opening a new office in Kuala Lumpur. Bandai Namco Malaysia is to be headed up be Nicolas Ng, who will be reporting to the firm’s Singapore office GM of sales and marketingRainel Tan. "Malaysia has always been one of our key markets within …

Amazon co-developing Fire exclusives with veteran studios

Former pizza delivery driver Thomas Finch crowdfunding Ethereal to help finish development and make something 'my dad would be proud of'

Tropes vs Women creator Anita Sarkeesian has been subject to another death threat, causing her to cancel a planned public speaking event. Standard Examiner reports that she was due to talk at the Utah State University’s Center for Women and Gender later today until the organisers received an email threatening …

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