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Xbox One’s difficult start is still well and truly behind it, Microsoft has said. Discussing elements such as the dropping of Kinect, the recent price drop and the beefed-up Xbox One Games With Gold offer, Xbox UK marketing boss Harvey Eagle told CVG: "It’s the cumulative effect of all those …

The recently announced original Alien film DLC for Sega’s Alien: Isolation will be available to all owners of the game at some point in the future. It was announced on Wednesday that all existing and future pre-orders for the game will be upgraded to the Nostromo Edition. The catch is …

Ubisoft has confirmed some highly impressive numbers for new IP Watch Dogs. The game has since its release in May seen 8m copies shipped to retailers worldwide. The free-roaming hacking fest became the fastest selling new IP ever in the UK back in June, having also become Ubisoft’s biggest ever …

GameStop’s Paul Raines has confirmed the retailer is exploring funding development of exclusive game content, though the CEO claims the firm would not involve itself in any form with the creative process. In an interview with Time, Raines explained that the recent reports stating as much were conceived over a …

ArenaNet’s recent Guild Wars 2 launch in China has doubled the game’s sales worldwide. Games Industry reports the NCSoft-published MMO has sold 3.8m copies in its first two months within the region. Phenomenal numbers, considering the title had sold just 3.5m a year after the game launched in multiple territories …

New research from Superdata shows that Brazil’s digital games market has cooled off, while other areas in Central and South America have picked up significantly. The organization’s report states that while Brazil is still considered the crown jewel” of the Latin America games market, countries like Mexico and Argentina are …

… after not mentioning the brand until 2,054 words into his 3,119 word statement. Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has pledged to continue backing the Xbox business while also stating that it is not part of its core. Having discussed the importance of ambition, innovation, mobiles, cloud computing, PCs, services, the …

The 2013 reboot of Shadow Warrior is coming to current-gen consoles later this year. The distributors for the game, Devolver Digital and Majesco Entertainment, confirmed that Flying Wild Hog’s resurrection of the bloody 90s first-person shooter would be released on PS4 and Xbox One this September. The studios added that …

Online dogfighting game Ace Combat Infinity has reached one million downloads worldwide. The Project Aces-developed and Bandai Namco-published title was released as a free-to-play PS3 exclusive a month and a half ago. To celebrate the one million download mark, users will be able to receive the Mirage 2000-5 White Tiger …

Two years ago EA was the top player in the smartphone game space. Now it’s starting again in an attempt to recapture that crown. And EA Mobile boss Frank Gibeau blames the decline on the switch from premium to free-to-play. "I think we’ve successfully gotten back into position and we …