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The studio behind the successful PixelJunk games has announced a new IP. The Tomorrow Children breaks away from the indie games’ 2D art style to embrace 3D visuals. The game tells the tale of a human race trapped and force to mine fallen giants, and seems to adopt a Soviet …

The PlayStation 4 has sold over 10m units worldwide. That’s the news from Sony’s Jim Ryan, who revealed the number at the start of Sony’s Gamescom 2014 press briefing, before personally thanking Sony boss Andrew House who was watching from the audience. Microsoft’s most recent Xbox One sales update was …

Acclaimed PlayStation 3 releases Journey and The Unfinished Swan will launch on PS4 later this year. The PlayStation US blog announces that the titles are in development for Sony’s next-gen hardware, with both studios stating the respective moves are thanks in large part to the success of the original PS3 …

Phil Spencer has said that the deal to make Rise of the Tomb Raider an Xbox exclusive is really a win-win”. The Crystal Dynamics title was unveiled as an Xbox exclusive at Microsoft’s Gamescom 2014 press briefing earlier today. "We’ve found in certain instances that if we can partner with …

Despite some confusion on the matter, Activision has confirmed that publishing label Sierra is returning. The brand will be used as an indie publishing label, with the first confirmed titles being new Geometry Wars and King’s Quest games. Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions is being developed by Lucid Games and will …

Future has confirmed that Declan Gough is its new head of content and marketing for films, games and music. As part of the change Edge has been moved back into Future’s games division, having previously been shifted out into ‘creative’. It also continues the merging of content and marketing duties …

The latest Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare short ups the drama by destroying one of the USA’s most iconic landmarks. The video, entitled ‘Collapse’, sees players in a stand-off on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. And it’s the bridge that loses out. There’s also a glimpse of not only the …

DLNA network video streaming, including support for formats such as .mkv, will begin rolling out to Xbox One next month. A new app will enable streaming from USB and, at an unspecified later date, networked media server devices. More or less every video format available will be supported. There are …

26 of the games confirmed as coming first on console to Xbox One are named in a new video from Microsoft. Titles include Coffee Stain’s delightfully absurd Goat Simulator, Team 17’s The Escapists, crowdfunding hit Superhot, successive iOS puzzler Threes and new MOBA title Smite. Here’s the list (courtesy of …

It’s almost 20 years since Lara Croft made her video games debut yet the star of Tomb Raider has today proved she’s more relevant than ever. Microsoft’s announcement that Rise of the Tomb Raider will be an Xbox One exclusive – or to put it another way, that it has …