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The EA Access subscription service is an Xbox One exclusive because Sony doesn’t believe it offers good value to consumers. That’s according to a Sony America spokesperson, who told Game Informer: We evaluated the EA Access subscription offering and decided that it does not bring the kind of value PlayStation …

GDC events general manager Meggan Scavio selects the hottest sessions from this year's conference

Upper One Games working with media firm to build 'World Games' category

You could argue that every game is of some sort of historical significance, of course. The question really is how do you whittle down the list. Can you really have a list of the games that have defined our medium without the inspirational Half-Life? That skips over the technologically liberating …

Sony has announced that its latest LittleBigPlanet game is to hit stores on November 18th in America. No date has been set for the UK yet, but assuming that the above isn’t a worldwide release, LittleBigPlanet 3 might well be coming to this side of the Atlantic on Friday November …

Best-selling racer accounts for more than half of Wii U game sales in three months ended June 30th

The first standalone DLC for inFamous: Second Son will be released as a boxed product as well as a download, Sony has confirmed. PlayStation Europe tweeted that inFamous: First Light will be available on disc in UK stores from September 10th. The date means that the expansion’s physical edition will …

Sky’s Now TV streaming service is launching today (July 30th) for Xbox One. Now TV is an on-demand service allowing viewers access to a variety of Sky content including movies, sports and TV programming. It was originally listed in the launch line-up for Xbox One entertainment apps set to hit …

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker has been dated for a January 2015 UK release. Nintendo revealed in its recent financials that the spin-off of the Super Mario 3D World mini-game would see a December release in Japan and the US, before coming to the UK and the rest of Europe one …

Gameloft has reported modest financial results for its most recent quarter, though the company is positioning itself for a strong second half of 2014. Games Industry reports on the publisher’s Q2 results, which show €55m million earned in revenue for the period – essentially the same as the same period …