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Telltale Games has picked up Destiny writer Joshua Rubin to help develop the studio’s upcoming take on Game of Thrones. Rubin had worked at Bungie on the Destiny franchise for the past two years, following stints at Ubisoft, Capcom and Visceral Games. "Thrilled to share that, after two great years …

Valve is now accepting submissions for Team Fortress 2 merchandise to be proposed by the game’s community and sold via Steam Workshop. The TF2 Blog provides details on the new program, revealing that anyone can submit a design (t-shirt, poster, etc.) for community vote. Valve will then select the most …

Free-to-play shooter Warframe will launch next month on Xbox One, developer Digital Extremes has announced. The studio revealed the news during a presentation over the weekend (video below, skip to 7:45), stating that the game will arrive on September 2nd for Microsoft’s latest console. The title originally released in open …

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president and CEO Jim Ryan has said that the platform holder doesn’t have anything against EA Access. The subscription service is available on Xbox One but won’t be arriving on PS4, with Sony previously saying that it doesn’t think asking our fans to pay an additional …

Nintendo may finally be about to make its long-awaited jump onto iOS. No, the company is not, as previously pledged, enabling Mario to move onto smartphone”, but YouTuber Josh Wittenkeller has said on Twitter that the platform holder IS porting its Pokemon Trading Card Game to iOS. The game was …

Those with more of an interest that animated Disney characters than Marvel superheroes will be interested to hear of a new Disney Infinity 2.0 bundle. The Toy Box Combo Pack, which is due out on November 7th, will include the game, the 2.0 base, one Merida and one Stitch figure …

From the moment Bobby Kotick, Activision CEO, bemoaned the poor sales of Wii U, you knew Skylanders had a problem. The record-breaking kids IP that introduced the world to ‘toys-to-life’ was finding it harder and harder to find where the kids were playing. Wii and DS sales had fallen down; …

Dovetail may be expanding into the worlds of fishing and planes, but don’t for a second think the publisher is turning its back on its beloved train series. Train Simulator 2015 hits shelves on September 18th, and the title’s developers are trying to make the game’s various functions easier to …

Metro has been remade. The cult survival horror shooter Metro 2033 and its sequel Metro: Last Light are being remastered for the latest generation bof consoles and PC as the Metro Redux double pack. 2033, which is an adaptation of the Russian novel of the same name, and Last Light …

Hell is coming to the PS4 and Xbox One. Diablo III, Blizzard’s gothic RPG which launched on PC in 2012 before coming to PS3 and Xbox 360 last year, is set to hit the current and last console generations on August 19th in the form of the Reaper of Souls …