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Capcom announced a new title in its popular Monster Hunter franchise today, and this one’s getting a western release. As part of the Monster Hunter Festa 13 event this week, the publisher unveiled Monster Hunter 4G will arrive for 3DS in Japan sometime later this year. The game is a …

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Aliens: Colonial Marines received heavy criticism from fans after its release last year. So you’d understand if Sega decided to play it safe with its follow-up. Instead, this autumn’s Alien Isolation features just a single monster and is being built by a studio that has never made anything like it …

Game testing outfit aims to house more than 550 employees by the summer

PlayStation UK is teasing a new ‘slim’ announcement for next week. The invitation to a breakfast event set to take place at 9am on January 30th simply reads: Following the biggest launch in PlayStation history,join us for an introduction to the slimmest.” What could it mean? Well if we were …

Team17's Bethany Aston discusses the key skills required for the role

GameMaster editor Matthew Pellett has been named editor of PlayStation: The Official Magazine. Pellett joined the team in 2007 as staff writer on Xbox World 360, he moved over to GamesMaster in October 2011 and worked his way into the editor’s chair. His replacement on GamesMaster will be announced ‘in …

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