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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 …

Xbox One owners don’t need Xbox Live Gold membership to buy into EA Access -that is, unless they want to play online. EA Access is a new subscription service that grants members unlimited access to certain EA titles and discounts on EA digital purchases. Any Xbox One gamer can join …

In case you missed it last week:The GMAs are back for 2014. And we need your nominations. There’s a raft of changes for this year, including all-new awards, a prize with a public vote and a new venue. The entry process has been improved too. We’ve now set it up …

Q1 has delivered mixed fortunes for the struggling Nintendo. On the positive side Mario Kart 8 has sold 2.82m copies in just over a month, representing an attach rate of over 40 per cent among Wii U oners. And in the quarter ending June 30th Nintendo sold 510k Wii U …