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Square Enix has claimed its second UK No.1 of 2014 with Thief getting off to a chart-topping debut. The games dominates this week’s UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 and in the words of UKIE smashes” the week one numbers enjoyed by its predecessor Thief: Deadly Shadows in 2004. …

Pyrodactyl has released a new tease trailer for its crowd-funded adventure role-playing game, Unrest. Unrest is based in and around the fictional city of Bhimra, which finds itself in turmoil amid a leadership change after the assassination of the ruling royal family. The game focuses heavily on narrative and conversation, …

Ironcode Gaming is set to launch Pahelika: Secret Legends HD on iOS on 6th March. Secret Legends is a narrative-driven adventure puzzle game, which was first released on PC in 2011. The Noida-based studio also released the follow-up to Secret Legends – Pahelika: Revelations – on PC in 2011, with …

Mumbai-based game developer Gamiana has announced the launch of three trivia games based on cricket, football, and Bollywood respectively. Guess The Cricket Star, Guess The Football Star, and Guess The Bollywood Flick all task the player with identifying sportspersons/films based on incomplete images and spelling the name using alphabets provided. …

PopCap is working on a new game for consoles, according to the company’s franchise marketing manager Gary Clay. In an interview with Digital Spy, Clay confirmed the studio is working on a new title for consoles – adding that the game in question isn’t necessarily” a new IP. VG247 keenly …

Twitch Plays Pokemon – a livestreamed crowd-play event with thousands of individuals attempting to control and play through one game – has ended in triumph, and a new journey is already underway. According to this TPP stats page, the game lasted a bit over 16 days and saw 36m total …

Banished has once again topped Steam’s best sellers chart, besting DayZ for the second week in a row. The city-building strategy game fished ahead of Bohemia’s Early Access hit, with the new Thief title finishing right behind in third. South Park: The Stick of Truth rose to fourth ahead of …

Rental and retail giant Blockbuster UK is still dead, says the company’s US licence holder. Earlier this week, Jack FM owner Crash Entertainment posted on its website that it had acquired the Blockbuster brand, would be launching 10 High Street shops and rebranding existing stores, and putting a Blockbuster video-on-demand …

Joe Danger devs seeks ‘fresh talent from outside video games’ to work on its hotly anticipated sci-fi title

Nordic has announced that Darksiders II is once again available on the Wii U eShop. The game vanished a little under a year ago following THQ’s demise but following Nordic’s acquisition of the IP last year has now been re-added to Nintendo’s digital offer. The news was confirmed in a …