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As in, there is literally a fish playing Pokemon, live on Twitch. Remember when crowdgaming pioneer Twitch Plays Pokemon made big news earlier this year? Well, things appear to have moved on somewhat. As spotted earlier today, now we have Fish Plays Pokemon. Welcome to our stream where our fish, …

The Dare to be Digital 2014 team talks to Develop about working on their entry title Reshuffle

Blizzard has revealed that those who have already played Diablo III on their last gen machines will be able to continue their games on PS4 or Xbox One. The clever part though is that unlike other titles, players will be free to port their progress across platforms – so PS3 …

Duke Nukem: Critical Mass was only ever released on DS, which makes the discovery of a complete PSP version all the more surprising. David Gibson, a moving image technician in the US Library of Congress, recently stumbled upon the find when performing an inventory of recently acquired games. I happened …

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Composers of Thomas Was Alone, Dear Esther and Remember Me heading to London next month

The market may be getting increasingly tough for Apple, but that isn’t stopping the continued growth of the App Store. CEO Tim Cook told CNBC that the App Store in July generated more revenue than in any other month in its history. "I couldn’t be happier,” said Cook. This is …

New tools for Dota 2 suggest the MOBA is migrating to a new engine

Members of games industry charity GamesAid can now put forward organisations for possible support this year. This process opened on Monday August 4th, and will close on Monday August 18th. Any member of the charity may put an organisation forward. Charities put forward should focus on helping disadvantaged or disabled …

Crysis developers Crytek are still in control of cult retro shooting Ip Timesplitters. Deep Silver acquired the Homefront IP from Crytek last week and opened a new UK developer called Dambuster Studios and plans to continue work on the recently announced Homefront: The Revolution. The team from Crytek UK, the …