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The Collector’s Edition of Homeworld Remastered will now include a USB-powered spaceship. Gearbox announced during a PAX East 2014 panel that amongst the Collector’s Edition treasures is the Mothership – a 12-inch, USB-powered replica of the in-game spacecraft that lights up. The statue is the result of a poll by …

Capcom has put $80m behind two new research and development buildings in Osaka, Japan. The new offices are to boast state of the art facilities including motion capture and sound studios. No doubt this will be to house some of the 100 software developers that the publisher’s CEO Kenzo Tsujimoto …

PC gamers who want to run Watch Dogs at the very highest specs will need a pretty beefy rig. As confirmed by creative director Jonathan Morin on Twitter, to hit the ultra spec requirements users will need a multi-threaded four-core Intel i7-4770k CPU and a GeForce 780. The PC trailer …

Publisher strengthening internal development with two new office buildings

Social gaming company Zynga has hired David Lee to serve as its chief financial officer and chief accounting officer. Lee previously worked at Best Buy as senior vice president of enterprise finance. In his new role he will be reporting directly to CEO Don Mattrick, formerly Microsoft’s president of interactive …

Sales of EA’s shooter Titanfall climbed 220 per cent thanks to the Xbox 360 release, returning to the shooter to the top of UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. That means Warner Bros’ LEGO: The Hobbit has to settle for No.2 in its debut week, while last week’s chart-topper …

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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 …