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Wargaming has finally nailed down a release date for free-to-play title War of Tanks on Xbox 360. The game will be made available for download on Xbox Live on Wednesday February 12th. Note however that unlike F2P titles such as DC Universe Online on PS4, those wishing to play will …

‘Several’ hundred jobs are said to be at risk at Disney Interactive. Wall Street Journal says the cuts will begin tomorrow, suggesting that a significant number of the 3,000 strong Interactive workforce is under threat. Disney Interactive president Jimmy Pitaro, who took over from John Pleasants in November, is said …

New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadellahas outlined his vision for the future of the company. Although it is hard to identify many specifics from the email he sent to employees, it’s clear the former cloud computing boss – who is a 22-year Microsoft veteran – is keen for Microsoft to combine …

Microsoft’s former cloud and enterprise group boss Satya Nadella has been named as the computing giant’s new CEO. He’s been at Microsoft since 1992 and has spearheaded its drive towards cloud computing, spending much of his time overseeing its servers and tools business. It has also been confirmed that former …

Nintendo has released Pokemon Bank in Europe following its festive delay. The service was originally announced way back in September and was supposed to launch worldwide over Christmas but was delayed following the technical problems that plagued eShop over the period. It finally arrived in a few Asian territories late …

Brighton company closes doors after six years

Standardised programming between systems and generation leaps could increase amount of software on new hardware

No, BioShock is not the best selling game to come from the 2K stable. That honour falls to Borderlands 2, which as revealed by Take-Two in its financials last night has now sold over 8.5m copies meaning it has surpassed every title in the BioShock series and also beaten the …

Boss Fight Entertainment already houses 25 staff

Steam is to introduce a brand new bit of functionality – Steam Music. It’s not a brand new store front selling music, however. Instead the functionality offers users the chance to integrate their music collection into their Steam library. The key here is that gamers will be able to listen …