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Deep Silver has picked up the North American retail distribution rights for downloadable PC hit Goat Simulator, the publisher has announced. Participating retailers in North America will begin carrying Coffee Stain Studio’s Steam chart-topper in mid-July. The boxed version will happily match the title’s digital price tag of $9.99. Next …

Borderlands 2 came out on top of Steam’s latest top sellers chart, as the Summer Sale rages on. The title’s Game of the Year edition finished ahead of last week’s winner, Skyrim – though its Legendary edition was still able to nab the runner-up slot. Payday 2 surged to third …

Blizzard’s hit card game is getting a single-player mode next month. Curse of Naxxrama was announced back in April, but fans won’t have to wait long to get hold of it, with Blizzard’s community manager (named Arati) confirming the game is due in July. Pricing for the expansion will be …

Autodesk, Unity and Marmalade also supporting next week's event

A new PS4 bundle featuring The Last of Us Remastered is coming to Europe. The bundle costs $430 (or 375) and comes with a PS4, a DualShock 4 controller and the game. It is out August 1st alongside the new title. For those that didn’t play last year’s post-apocalyptic horror …

Technical director Rob Dodd tells us the role Unity played in the construction of Fireproof Games’ The Room Two

Console sales 'increased significantly' since game's release, shareholder claims

CEO to continue in leadership role despite increasing pressure

One-day conference and business networking event for toy and game inventors will take place in September

Continuing our round-ups of this year's finalists, here are the developers up for our main audio award