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Two different bundles have been revealed for Xbox One’s launch in additional European territories this September. As spotted by NeoGaf, the machine will in the Netherlands and Norway (and Denmark) be available in two SKUs. The first, priced at €399.99 (320) includes the console, controller and copies of FIFA 15 …

The second of our tools awards will be given to products that help studios streamline their games and development processes

Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has described Xbox boss Phil Spencer as a reasonable, smart guy” and claimed his predecessor used to say some unbelievable things”. Spencer took control of Xbox in the spring and spearheaded an apologetic and humble E3 2014 presentation that make big strides toward getting …

Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed, Halo – all will be outsold by Bungie’s Destiny this year, according to Cowen Research analyst Doug Creutz. VentureBeat reports that the company’s data on game pre-orders points to sales of between 10-15m units this year – which by implication means that either a fantastic …

Scheme offers European developers discoverability boost

Kickstarted strategy title Planetary Annihilation is now available to buy at GAME – despite the fact it’s still in development. The SKU was spotted by Reddit but can also be seen on GAME’s website, where both the final game and the Early Access version can be had for 39.99. That’s …

In the first of our two tools awards, we look at the shortlisted tech that improves the look and feel of games

Swedish firm expanding global operations and staffing up San Francisco office

Dorian the Mage will set new ground when he debuts in BioWare’s Dragon Age: Inquisition on October 10th. BioWare writer David Gaider describes Dorian as the first fully gay character I’ve had the opportunity to write”, adding: It added an interesting dimension to his back story, considering he comes from …

Analytics firm DeltaDNA aims to help developers make their free-to-play games more engaging. That’s no easy feat, as anybody who’s dabbled in the F2P market will know. The DeltaDNA platform has been built to perform real-time analysis on hundreds of millions of game events as they happen. “The fundamental difference …