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SteamOS has been dropped from Alienware’s upcoming mini gaming PC range in favour of Windows. The Steam Box will launch at the end of this year with a $550 price tag. But absent from the device are both the Steam OS and controller. Alienware will instead ship its offering with …

Nintendo has revealed some more projects being worked on by development legend Shigeru Miyamoto. Two games were shown off at Nintendo’s Treehouse Live event – Project Giant Robot and Project Guard. The first sees gamers playing as – you guessed it – giant robots and fighting one another. Project Guard …

Nintendo has revealed that Monolith Soft’s Wii U title X is now called Xenoblade Chronicles X. The game has been under the name X since it was first announced in January 2013 as part of a Nintendo Direct. The open world RPG title sees mankind caught in the middle of …

RuneScape's community head Jane Ryan on how to keep players coming back to your game

Preloaded games designer Catherine Goode discusses the importance of letting players associate with their avatars

Grand Theft Auto V is to receive exclusive content on PlayStation 4. What this will actually entail is yet to be revealed, however. Speaking to Kotaku, SCEA marketing VP John Koller said: I don’t think we announced anything publicly on that, but there will be. I thinkGTA V is a …

A new VR-powered title is making it way to Oculus Rift and PS4 via Project Morpheus. The Assembly is the first major VR game from UK studio nDreams. Few details of the title were confirmed other than that it’s built around a hidden collective of scientists, academics, engineers and other …

An equivalent of Steam’s Early Access initiative could be on its way to PS4, PS3 and Vita via the PlayStation Network. That’s one of the massive conversations we have internally,” VP of developer and publisher relations at Sony Computer Entertainment America Adam Boyes told Gamasutra. We’re working through [paid alpha …

Brendan Iribe says consumer headset will be cheaper following Facebook deal

Nintendo has announced a brand new game for the 3DS. Entitled Code Name: Steam, it is a turn-based strategy game developed by Intelligent Systems – the studio behind the Fire Emblem and Advance Wars series. Hitoshi Yamagami, who has worked on Fire Emblem, Pokmon and Xenoblade, is also involved in …