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From Software has revealed what Japanese gamers will be receiving with the Collector’s Edition of Dark Souls 2. Whereas Western gamers get a 30cm/450g Warrior Knight as the standout inclusion, in Japan the SKU comes with a latched hard case containing eight sword and shield replicas. The heaviest of the …

PlayStation Plus is proving hugely popular with PS4 owners. CVG reports that Sony CEO Kaz Hirai told investors that "of all the 4.2m PS4s that have moved into the hands of consumers, more than half of those people have signed up for the PS Plus service". There are now also …

PC GAMING WEEK: Sales of boxed PC games may have reached their lowest point in history, but the creators of Football Manager and The Sims insist the High Street remains vital. The majority of PC games are bought digitally. Yet Sports Interactive’s Miles Jacobson and The Sims exec producer Rachel …

Famed UK developer Peter Molyneux has added his voice to the list of those criticising EA’s Dungeon Keeper smartphone remake. "I felt myself turning round saying, ‘What? This is ridiculous. I just want to make a dungeon. I don’t want to schedule it on my alarm clock for six days …

'I just want to make a dungeon. I don't want to schedule it on my alarm clock for six days to come back for a block to be chipped'

Chicken not Flappy Bird, Not so Flappy Bird 3D and Flying Bird 3D not Flappy Bird hit Google Play and App Store

The gaming fandom has once again put itself to shame following its reaction to the pulling of Flappy Bird. Creator Dong Nguyen removed the game from app stores yesterday, saying that I cannot take this anymore”. It’s not hard to see why. As spotted by Develop, recent tweets to Nguyen …

Vitriolic nature of minority of game players rears its ugly head as Dong Nguyen pulls title from app stores

After submitting to Lara Croft last week, FIFA is once again No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. FIFA 14 chalks up its tenth week at No.1 and becomes the eleventh title to join an elite group of games, which have recorded over ten weeks atop the …

True to his word, developer Doug Nguyen has removed smartphone hit Flappy Bird from app stores. Nguyen on Saturday said he would pull the game within 24 hours, claiming on Twitter that I cannot take it anymore”, possibly referencing the sudden surge of attention he’d received following the game’s sudden …