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Konami has released a PES-branded badge collecting football title on smartphones. It’s called PES Manager, although it’s actually a version of existing Japanese title World Soccer Collection S. It features over 1,500 licensed player badges and a 3D match engine. It’s all along the same lines as FIFA’s Ultimate Team, …

CD Projekt Red will not offer different exclusive content on different platforms in The Witcher 3. Games such as Watch Dogs have recently come in for criticism for releasing a huge number of SKUs (specifically, ten) with certain content locked away for owners of specific partner platforms. This isn’t a …

Valve’s Steam Machines will be the least profitable hardware Alienware has sold in its history, the gaming PC manufacturer has said. It’s going to be very challenging," general manager of Alienware Frank Azor toldWall Street Journal. "This will absolutely be the least profitable system we ever sell.” Some sellers are …

No more online multiplayer for Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros Brawl

Gaming PC manufacturer says getting good business out of Valve’s upcoming microconsole with be very challenging

Team 17’s Worms Battlegrounds will be released on Xbox One and PS4 later this month. It will arrive both in boxed and digital form on June 30th, although the digital PS4 release in the US will arrive a tad later – June 3rd. The game is one of the first …

One million sales and beyond – that’s the expectation Tecmo Koei has for its in-development Wii U exclusive Hyrule Warriors. In gaming, this is a first-time collaboration,” Tecmo Koei president Yoichi Erikawa told Nikkei, as reported by Nintendo Everything. As a new entry in the Warriors series, we plan to …

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The German developer and publisher gives us an exclusive look at its innovative technique for creating 3D scenes from 2D art

The upcoming death of Games for Windows Live doesn’t mean permanent hollowing for Dark Souls. That’s according to Bandai Namco, which has pledged that the PC version of the cult RPG will continue working for the time being and eventually migrate to an alternative system. With the release of Dark …