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Both the New 3DS and New 3DS XL will maintain Nintendo’s region locking policy. The platform holder confirmed the news to GameSpot. That means that systems will only be compatible with games bought from the same market – so no American games will work on a European console, for instance. …

Publisher scales down development and customer service workforce following game's release

We now turn our attention to one of Australia’s newcomers, the interactive art developer Current Circus.

Sega of America has filed documents defending itself against false advertising allegations for Aliens: Colonial Marines, pointing to Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford as a major issue throughout the game’s development. Polygon reports on the newly surfaced documents, which reveal emails that reference Pitchford’s habit of taking things into his own …

Upcoming Watch Dogs DLC Pack Bad Blood” will launch later this month, Ubisoft has announced. The 10 missions included in Bad Blood center on hacker Raymond "T-Bone" Kenney as he attempts to assist an old friend in the wake of the events that take place in original game. The add-on …

Elder Scrolls Online team Zenimax Online Studios has been hit with a round of layoffs, Bethesda VP of PR and Marketing Pete Hines has confirmed. Hines provided an explanation for the redundancies toJoystiq– stating that the level of customer service necessary six months ago when the game launched is no …

Soon it won’t be only the PlayStation Vita that offers PS4 Remote Play. Sony’s new Xperia Z3 range – including the vanilla Z3, the Z3 Compact and the Z3 Tablet – will also allow users to stream games from their PS4 using the existing PlayStation App, which will from November …

Project Cars has been dated, according to GAME. The PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC versions of Slightly Mad Studios’ crowd-funded racing title will be hitting shelves on November 21st. And the Wii U SKU is still on track for a 2015 release. The above was revealed by GAME via …

A number of Chinese companies are in discussions over a possible acquisition of Ouya, according to reports. Recode claims that Ouya has already held preliminary talks with multiple big players in China” – including Tencent – after the company decided that an acquisition was a more realistic goal than trying …

There is now officially a new entrant in the virtual reality space. Produced in collaboration with Oculus, the Gear VR is effectively a head-mounted housing for the company’s new Galaxy Note 4 ‘phablet’, using its 5.7-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED screen to display the two separate images that comprise the …