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GungHo CEO not satisfied with the firm’s number of hits in the increasingly competitive mobile market

Virtual reality may not just mean the end of TVs – it might actually mean the end of ever interacting with actual flesh and blood people altogether. Having predicted the end for television yesterday, GameSpot has spotted some even more audacious claims from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey in an interview …

Studio’s in-house composer of more than ten years dismissed under unspecified circumstances

US hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg – or Snoop dee oh double gee, as he refers to himself in the video below – is heading to Call of Duty. The rapper is lending his voice to a new $2.99 voice pack DLC release which adds a number of his sound bites …

A disc version of indie smash-hit Minecraft will arrive on PS3 next month. That’s according to a marketing email sent out to PSN members, as posted on NeoGAF, which dates it for May 14th. Although that’s a Wednesday, so perhaps expect a May 16th arrival in the UK. The game …

Seven Summits Studio’s ambient game, Petite, is set for release in June for Windows 8. Petite was created by Asar Dhandala as an entry for Microsoft’s Dev Camps, for which the prototype was created within 12 hours. It was selected as the best game in that competition, following which it …

PlayStation platform holder Sony has sold off the 9.5m shares it held in Square Enix. CVG reports that prior to the sale Sony was Square’s third largest shareholder. It had owned the stake for over ten years. Interestingly, despite having a value of around $157m, Sony sold off the stock …

Softtalkblog wonders how we will interact with the home appliances of the future and what Intel's tech can do to assist with your own products

Ted Timmins spent more than seven years at the Guildford studio and worked on the original Fable

Acclaimed video games composer and Halo score creator Marty O’Donnell says he has been sacked by Bungie. I’m saddened to say that Bungie’s board of directors terminated me without cause on April 11, 2014,” he said on Twitter. The news was then confirmed in a Bungie statement that read: For …