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Metro Redux will launch in late August in both North America and Europe, publisher Deep Silver has announced. The remastered edition of the first two games in 4A’s budding Metro franchise releases on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One August 26thin North America and August 29th in Europe. Metro Redux …

Anonymous sources close to Crytek have confirmed a sequel to Ryse: Son of Rome has been canceled. Kotaku has statements (under anonymity) from ten current and former staff members that affirm reports that Crytek is suffering through financial woes – confirming that the firm’s most recent payroll was missed and …

‘Top Gear for gamers’ – that’s the pitch for a new video games based TV show in the planning stages at Redbull. The show, the press release for which is is already drawing criticism for its somewhat antiquated dudebro approach to gaming, currently goes under the name ‘Players’. It will …

Wolfenstein: The New Order 2 could yet become reality, should developer MachineGames get its way. Publisher ZeniMax must have been delighted with the game’s critical reception, and if the sales numbers match the review scores then MachineGames creative director Jens Matthies says his studio will be ready and waiting. We …

Sony is readying a The Last of Us: Remastered PS4 hardware bundle, according to one online retailer. Amazon France has the SKU listed for €429.99 (345) that includes a black console and controller as well as a copy of the game. Sony recently lowered the price of the title from …

MD David Banner tells us how the firm is putting Wales on the map

Battlefield 4, Grand Theft Auto Online, Final Fantasy XIV, SimCity, Half-Life 2, Diablo III – the list of online launch disasters is hardly a small one. But Bungie has said that it is already working on measures to ensure that Destiny is not added to any such list this September. …

Sports Interactive’s hugely successful Football Manager series has claimed another PC milestone. Football Manager 2014 has now broken the record for the most weeks spent at number one in the UK PC game chart, with 22 weeks at number one – 18 of those consecutively. The news comes as Sega’s …

PC gamers will have the option of significantly ramping up Grid Autosport’s visuals compared to the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. If you play on PC you’ll have access to the first piece of additional content the moment GRID Autosport launches; an HD texture pack that will increase the visual …

UK and Bulgarian offices affected by latest of studio's financial troubles