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Rovio has unveiled a new addition to the Angry Birds franchise, releasing a short medieval-themed video teasing the new effort. The video (embedded below) shows one of the birds in a full suit of armor, with the YouTube description adding: Perhaps the most Epic soft launch ever – whatever that …

US Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners could soon see political advertisements appearing on the Xbox Live dashboard, according to a new report. The Washington Post reports Microsoft representatives were spotted handing out promo materials during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this month in Washington DC. The distributed …

South Park: The Stick of Truth has emerged the victor for Steam’s latest weekly sales chart, beating out DayZ and Banished for the top spot. Ubisoft’s RPG based on the long-running cartoon benefited from its launch last week, but had been a list regular for the past month or two …

Senior producer Dominic Guay confesses that the game 'could have shipped'

It’s a brave new next-gen world out there, and with it comes a new era in higher-price trade-in prices. GameStop has revealed a part-exchange offer for the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Watch Dogs, but the retailer is asking for an unusually high 14.97 from interested punters. To take …

Lobbying open now for new ranking of the rising stars working in mobile content

Only one year left for games industry to make the most of Skills Investment Fund

Everyplay evangelist Oscar Clark discusses whether free-to-play is generating a golden age of game design

Don’t expect to see Sony and Microsoft dropping the price of PS3 and Xbox 360 this side of Christmas. That’s according to EA’s chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen, who as reported by GameSpot told the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, & Technology conference that: "At some point [Microsoft and Sony] will …

Those intending to use Microsoft’s new stereo headset with their Xbox One will have to go through the unusual process of updating their controller’s firmware. Fortunately it’s a relatively painless process that should take less than five minutes in total. The required software arrived last week alongside Xbox One’s second …