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TheCity of Angels becomes the City of the Dead in the next game in Deep Silver’s open-world zombie-bashing RPG series, Dead Island. Dead Island 2 will continue the main storyline told in Dead Island, follow-up Dead Island: Riptide and cartoony spin-off sequel Escape Dead Island (set for release in November). …

TheCEO of PlayStation says the console games industry must go beyond the core gamer if it wants to see the sort of numbers reached by PS2 and Wii again. Speaking to MCV @ Gamescom after the reveal that PS4 sales had shot past 10m units in nine months, Andrew House …

The Last Guardian was no-where to be seen at Gamescom this week. So a showing at The Tokyo Game Show next month is a given, surely? Nope. Of course not. Sony’s been looking for the right time” to re-announce the missing in action PS3/PS4/PS5 game for very nearly a year …

The ability to pay cash for upgrades and unlocks in Assassin’s Creed: Unity will not alter the core experience, Ubisoft has vowed. The full extent of the game’s microtransactions has not yet been revealed, but OXM reports that players will be able to pay real money to ‘hack’ items and …

'1080p isn't some mythical, perfect resolution,' says Xbox boss

Aljosha Demeulemeester, CEO of middleware specialists Graphine Software, tells MCV @ Gamescom about the firm’s new Granite SDK. What have you brought to Gamescom this year? We’re showing off thelatest iteration (2.3) ofthe Granite SDK: our fine- grained texture streaming and texture compression middleware that allows our partners to use …

Sony has released a new video of the Vita version of Minecraft in action. The Vita version of the world-conquering indie title will be a cross-buy title in conjunction with the existing PS3 release. A small fee will be required to step up to the PS4 version. Xbox 360 owners …

The man behind cult Treasure shooter Ikaruga has said he’s currently developing a new PS4 shooter called Ubusana. Siliconera reports that little is known about Hiroshi Iuchi’s game beyond the fact that it will be a digital release and could go multi-platform at some stage. Its release could be some …

Do we feel the need to go out and buy outright exclusivity? Probably not.” That’s the assessment of PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan who has told CVG that the combination of Sony’s own first party developer network and PS4’s market-leading position are strong enough propositions as it is. I think …

While still in the midst of trying to crack the video-on-demand market, WWE is now trying its hand at the online card battling scene. 2K has revealed WWE Supercard, a free-to-play digital card game for iOS and Android featuring around 400 wrestlers and managers both past and present. Frequent updates …