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Respawn Entertainment has confirmed that it is not handling development duties for the current-gen version of Titanfall. Boss Vince Zampella has confirmed that Bluepoint Games is handling the Xbox 360 version of the highly anticipated multiplayer shooter, which is release on Xbox One, PC and 360 on March 14th. Bluepoint …

Senior online engineer and lead writer needed for Microsoft's newly-acquired franchise

After the success of its award-winning mobile RPG – Song of Swords, Nautilus Mobile is shifting gears for its second game. Real Cricket 14 is a cricket simulation planned for release in mid-March on iOS and Android. Why the drastic move from RPG to cricket? Anuj (Mankar, CEO) brought me …

Popular multiplayer online battle arena title League of Legends supports 27m active players on a daily basis, developer Riot Games has announced. The independent studio states the figure more than doubles the 12m active players the game boasted in October 2012 – adding that peak concurrent players have also increased …

Nintendo is reportedly readying a push onto mobile devices, but it doesn’t appear to be the full experience many are looking for. Japanese outlet Nikkei reports Nintendo plans on launching a mobile initiative this year – one that will market its console games by releasing free mini game” downloads and …

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has surpassed 20m copies sold across all platforms, Bethesda has announced. The studio revealed the figure yesterday, which accounts for retail and digital sales of the game and its Legendary Edition. Though the company failed to mention if it was referring to units shipped or …

New toolset includes three editing modes and can be used with deformers and other Modo tools

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Origin-style money-back offers may be some way off, but Steam has introduced one consumer-pleasing feature over the weekend. Joystiq reports that Steam users are now able to automatically have pre-orders refunded via the introduction of a ‘Refund an Item’ button on their transaction history page. The pre-order amount is then …