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Chris Stead, the founding editor of Australian Game Informer, has branched out with a fully interactive magazine which aims to challenge what we think rich media really means.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has taken the top spot on this week’s Steam top ten sellers chart, finishing ahead of DayZ thanks to a half-off promotion. Payday 2 finished behind the pair in third, while Divinity: Original Sin dropped a notch to fourth. Newcomer Risen 3 rounds out the top five. …

Microsoft has begun rolling out digital download offers for Xbox content at US and UK shops, including codes for add-ons and full games. Major Nelson announces that codes for various products are already available for purchase on Amazon, and coming soon to other retailers. We’re kicking this off with digital …

A Pokmon trading card game is in the works for release on iPad devices later this year, The Pokmon Company has confirmed. Video personality Josh Wittenkeller originally broke the news on Twitter, posting an image that appeared to show a white iPad playing a version of The Pokmon Trading Card …

Intel Developer Blog: A free tool to help you manage the development process

Eric Baesa of creative specialist TAKEOFF discusses the importance of collector’s editions and the power of Batman merchandise. We’ve seen some major changes in the physical world of video games. There have been fewer games released, with an increased focus on digital. But there remains a massive audience of gamers …

The shift from a two-year to a three-year development cycle for the Call of Duty development cycle gives developers more scope to be creative and possibly make mistakes. "That extra year of development time, particularly with the new consoles and the more powerful hardware, has really paid off thus far …

At this point, it would be impossible to deny the significance of mobile gaming to the games industry as a whole. Far removed from the sniffy dismissals of ten years ago, mobile gaming has progressed from being the extra novelty on a handset (think Snake) to one of the biggest …

Hope could yet remain for Microsoft’s ill-fated Xbox Entertainment Studios. As part of its restructuring announcement last month the platform holder revealed that the Santa Monica studio, which was tasked with creating original TV programming for Xbox, was to be closed. But The Hollywood Reporter reveals that talks have taken …

The organisers of a now-cancelled unofficial Minecraft convention are suspected of having made off with over $500k worth of ticket sales. Kotaku reports that the team behind the New York fan convention Mineorama cancelled the event just four days before it was supposed to happen, saying on Twitter that: "It …