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Creative Assembly’s Total War: Rome II has again fallen under fan scrutiny, this time over paid DLC allegedly including cut content from the game’s pre-release version. Players claim that the Camel Cataphract units featured in the recently released Beasts of War pack were originally seen in a Let’s Play video …

The Valve-produced Dota 2 documentary Free to Play will arrive March 19th on Steam, the company has announced. "[Free To Play] takes viewers around the globe to meet the players, their families and their loved ones as they prepare to play for the first $1 million prize ever awarded in …

Future Final Fantasy series releases could see release on the Windows PC platform, Square Enix has revealed. Franchise producer Yoshinori Kitase confirmed to Eurogamer that the company is interested in developing for the platform – explaining that complex issues” relating to security and the platform’s past market situation were the …

Publisher lining up beta for long-awaited shooter after New Order release

A former winner of Sony’s Gran Turismo Academy competition has been signed up as a driver for a real-life race team. The BBC reports that 22-year old Jann Mardenborough is joining Red Bull’s Arden Motorsport team to compete in the 2014 GP3 series – that’s just two notches below F1 …

A new trailer for Wolfenstein: The New Order has confirmed that a new Doom title IS in development. Those who pre-order Wolfenstein – which incidentally now has a May 23rd release date on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 – will get access to what is being called ‘Doom Beta’. …

Players have driven more than 653 million miles from 8m hours of gameplay

A glitch that had appeared in the UK TV ad for Xbox One at the end of last month has been revealed as a competition. A one-second disruption was apparently inserted into the ‘Invitation’ TV short in January. That one second contained 25 frames, in which were hidden a series …

Character boost enables those who pay to instantly reach level 90

The Shenmue trademark looks like it may no longer be the property of Sega. DualShockers has spotted an update to the Shenmue trademark page on the United States Patent and Trademark Office website that says the rights have been lost due to lack of use. Registration cancelled because registrant did …