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The PlayStation 4 has been out of stock in India since shortly after its launch in January, and any hopes of it becoming available this month are now gone. Retailer Game4u has announced that new PS4 stock will arrive in India in May, IGN reported, and sources have confirmed the …

EA will not be releasing the Xbox 360 version of Titanfall as a Games on Demand download. After extensive testing, we felt that it simply did not represent the true Titanfall experience and it was decided not to release a Games on Demand version,” a statement on EA’s help pages …

Firaxis Games has announced Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth, revealing the game will release later this year. The development studio officially confirmed the news over the weekend, but it was an early info leak picked up by NeoGAF late last week that initially spilled the beans. The game will be …

Just a year after entering the market, Square Enix has shut down its India operations without having released a single game. Square Enix India was set up with a view to developing mobile games for the Indian market in collaboration with Indian developers. While it did not develop games itself, …

Titanfall will receive its first DLC offering next month, developer Respawn has announced. Dubbed Expedition, the new content will add three new maps and additional story that will take place following the multiplayer campaign. The "Swampland" map will be set among the ruins of "archaic alien technology" and includes trees …

DayZ is back on top of Valve’s latest weekly top sellers chart on Steam. The Early Access title resumes its reign atop the board, following Goat Simulator’s triumph the week prior. The goat game still fared alright though, finishing in third behind Watch Dogs (on the strength of its pre-orders). …

Cloud gaming outlet OnLive has halved the price of its CloudLift service to under 5. The streaming service allows users to play their existing games purchased on Steam across a variety of devices, including tablet PCs and TVs, through the cloud. But now the firm has slashed the price of …

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Andrew Bean and Simon Doyle analyse issues such as scale, in-game UIs and simulation sickness