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CBS-owned online gaming publication GameSpot has suffered an unspecified number of layoffs, former employees and the company itself have confirmed. Ex-GameSpot reviewer Carolyn Petit posted a series of posts on her Twitter account detailing her recent exit from the site. "Today was my last day at GameSpot. It was a …

Deep Silver has purchased the Homefront intellectual property from Crytek, taking Homefront: The Revolution out of Crytek’s hands and placing Deep Silver Dambuster Studios in charge of development. "We are thrilled to see another great IP joining the Deep Silver universe," CEO of Deep Silver’s parent company Koch Media Dr. …

Intel Developer Blog: A look at how porting your game to Android can bring renewed success

Japan’s console market saw a significant dip in earnings last year, a new annual report on the region finds. Analyst Dr. Serkan Toto posted a copy of the Japanese Computer Entetainment Supplier’s Association’s release, showing console-related sales were down 16 per cent – a drop from $4.8bn in 2012 to …

China will become an officially supported Xbox One region when the console arrives the in the freshly green-lit territory in September. It will be the first foreign machine to go on sale in the territory since trade restrictions preventing the sale of games consoles were lifted at the turn of …

Keen to redress the criticism levelled at it last month, Ubisoft has released details of a female central character” who features in Assassin’s Creed: Unity. A new trailer shows Arno racing against time and through a dense and chaotic central Paris in order to prevent the beheading of Elise, a …

Epic proves the versatility of its latest game engine with Tappy Chicken and Zen Garden for mobile devices

Michael Antonov discusses what the changes to the new dev kit and SDK mean for developers

Three Limited Edition versions of the upcoming Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare have been detailed by publisher Activision. The first is called the Atlas Limited Edition. Priced at 69.99 it includes a bonus multiplayer map and a special manual, all delivered in a steelcase. The 99.99 Atlas Pro Edition adds …

Activision has revealed the number of people that had played the beta of its new blockbuster IP Destiny. In total 4,638,937 people played the beta between its launch on July 17th and end on July 28th. The beta was initially exclusive to PlayStation consoles, but as of July 23rd,Xbox fans …