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Online miscreants have chosen to disrupt Battle.net services a week after the launch of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. The actions have left players facing problems attempting to log in to Blizzard’s biggest titles. Diablo, World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Hearthstone players may be impacted by high latency and disconnections …

A report from Japan seems to be suggesting that there’s a small risk Nintendo president Saturo Iwata could be voted off the company’s board. A Siliconera translation of a Nikkei report says that Iwata’s internal approval rating has fallen from 92.86 per cent in 2001 to 77.26 per cent today, …

Metro Redux is real and in the works for the latest generation of consoles, publisher Deep Silver has confirmed. Rumour of the franchise’s jump to next-gen broke yesterday, when a pair of images mentioning the Metro Redux SKU for PS4, Xbox One and PC hit the web. Deep Silver has …

Free-to-play shooter Warface has reached 25m registered users, Crytek has announced. In a news post on Crytek’s site, the company revealed the figure – adding that the milestone was achieved in just two years within Russian, North American and European territories. It is a fantastic achievement for our franchise and …

Oculus staff and their families have received death threats over Facebook’s recent acquisition of the company, Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey has revealed. Luckey explained in a post on Reddit that while Oculus employees had anticipated an initial negative reaction from the masses, the company didn’t believe the backlash would reach …

PlayStation is giving football fans the opportunity to score tickets to this year’s World Cup. Sony has lifted the lid on its Play for your Country with PlayStation competition, which tests the minds of football fans with a multiple-choice quiz for the chance to win tickets to this year’s FIFA …

Crytek's multiplayer FPS attracts 20m new users in 16 months

Microsoft veteran Phil Spencer will now lead a reorganised Xbox division. The new-look division combines Xbox, Xbox Live development teams and the Microsoft studios. He will report to Terry Myerson, who is in charge of the group developing operating systems, as the two business areas look to work closer together. …

Microsoft exec leading Microsoft Studios and Xbox Music and Video teams

Animal Crossing could not only be making a console return, but also be branching out onto non-Nintendo hardware. The series’ producer Katsuya Eguchi told Polygon that while he feels the game is best suited to handhelds, the right idea could see it return to consoles – although possibly not the …