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John Vechey is leaving PopCap after nearly 15 years with the studio, parent company EA has announced. A post on EA’s site shares a memo to employees in which both EA Mobile president Frank Gibeau and Vechey himself address the departure. "Many of you know me as the energetic, happy-go-lucky …

The video below offers a glimpse on how users are able to play Bungie’s upcoming shooter Destiny on their Vita. Bungie has optimised the game’s controls for Sony’s handheld, mapping the grenade and melee buttons that are normally found on the DualShock 4’s second set of shoulder buttons to the …

One of the PSOne’s more obscure titles could be heading for a resurrection. Gematsu reports that Sony has filed a trademark from the Vib-Ribbon brand in Europe. The game, from the developers of PaRappa the Rapper, was released in 2000 (although only in Japan and Europe). It even received a …

Xbox 360 owners will from next week have Sky News added to the TV section of their console’s UI. The feed is being made available in both the UK and US from Tuesday September 9th. Sky News is consistently exploring opportunities to expand our global reach,” Sky News head of …

EA has added its most recent Need for Speed title Rivals to its subscription EA Access program. Need for Speed: Rivals joins the likes of Battlefield 4, FIFA 14, Peggle 2 and Madden NFL 25 on the service, which is available on Xbox One in the UK for either 19.99 …

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We can finally reveal our full schedule for the upcoming Games Retail 2020. The September 16th event will look at the future of games retailing and takes place at BAFTA in Central London. You can book your tickets here. The event will include exclusive market data from GfK Chart-Track, Juniper …

Destiny is coming to Xbox One and Xbox 360, but Microsoft isn’t really allowed to talk about it. That’s because while Bungie’s shooter is multiplatform Activision has tied up all its marketing with Sony and agreed to release content exclusively on PlayStation platforms until Christmas 2015. The interesting part is, …

Around 300 GAME stores will be opening their doors at midnight on Monday night (September 8th) for the midnight launch of Bungie’s shooter Destiny. GAME’s main event takes place at its Westfield store in Stratford where goodie bags will be given out to attendees and there will be a chance …

Former PS3 exclusive Way of the Samurai 4 is being ported to PC. Ghostlight is bringing the Acquire developed oddity, which was released in Japan in early 2011 and in the West in late 2012, to Steam at some point in the future. It will be the first game on …