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Nintendo has backtracked on previous plans to introduce dual-GamePad support for Wii U titles. The functionality was once promised for 2013 but is yet to be implemented in any of the console’s titles. That now doesn’t look likely to change anytime soon. "Certainly as we’ve been working on Wii U, …

Ubisoft has said that a patch for the troubled PC version of Watch Dogs will be released in the coming days”. The game has had a troubled start to life, with modders claiming to have unlocked some allegedly deliberately blocked features and a promised patch to fix the numerous performance …

The co-founder of The Fullbright Company and co-creator of its seminal title Gone Home has formed his own studio. The new outfit for Johnnemann Nordhagen – amusingly named Dim Bulb Games (as opposed to Fullbright, see?) – will be based in San Francisco and continue to develop independent games. Nordhagen …

Despite expanding on the successes it has enjoyed with the Kindle, Kindle Fire and potentially promising Fire TV, Amazon’s new Fire Phone has been criticised by some analysts. Aside from the device’s 3D Dynamic Perspective screen, which tracks a user’s head and alters the screen image to create a pseudo-3D …

CEO Andrew Day ponders the challenges of a dynamic but fragmented market

Don't expect many more first-party blockbusters on PlayStation's handheld

Only a few team slots left for the game industry five-a-side competition, sponsored by PlayStation

Device features 3D interface and head-tracking that can be used in games

Martin Carrier expresses concerns over sudden decrease in incentives

Oh, Phil. The ever-controversial Phil Fish yesterday took to Twitter to compare YouTubers who post game footage to pirates, before going on to delete or suspend his Twitter account entirely. "YouTubers should have to pay out a huge portion of their revenue to the developers from which they steal all …