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The 500GB Xbox 360 hard drive is coming to the UK this month. It looks like it will be replacing the former 320GB model, which is only available while supplies last. The new model will retail for the same price of 79.99, Xbox has told MCV. The news follows yesterday’s …

As EA prepares to launch its Access subscription model, it seems time is up for the EA Sports Season Ticket. The Season Ticket, for a 20 one-off fee, allows sports gamers to get early access to certain titles and discounts for Ultimate Team packs and DLC discounts. It launch back …

Kempt Games CEO reflects on his experience on BBC show Dragons' Den

Lunar Software may reconsider virtual reality integration closer to release

It may bear the Dead Island name, but Escape Dead Island is bursting away from Deep Silver’s zombie franchise with several big changes. First of all, Escape swaps out the series’ signature first-person combat for a thirdperson take on zombie killing. Players can wield a combination of melee weapons and …

Dovetail Games’ director of brand Doug McConkey on how today’s technology is driving the simulation genre forward. It’s been a busy year here at Dovetail Games. We spent the first half of the year quietly growing our development team as we prepared to announce that we were going to be …

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PC specialist Iceberg Interactive went to Gamescom with some exciting games. Sales director Howard Newmark tells us more. What did you bring to Gamescom this year? The Iceberg Team had a significant presence at GamesCom this year, once again taking up a sizeable part of the Holland Pavilion. We showed …

Intel Develop Blog: How the Intel Integrated Native Developer Experience can help you with cross-platform development

Long awaited UI features available, and to be open source, as engine outfit unveils new stats on user numbers