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A rumoured successor to Nvidia’s Titan graphics card – the Titan Black – has been listed by an online store. Finnish store Multitronic Webshopis taking pre-ordersfor the card at €978,90 (806). The Titan has largely been replaced by the 780 Ti,which performs faster and costs less than the Titan,but doesn’t …

Funding to go toward expanding global presence and improving user experience

A games-focused under-the-TV entertainment system will be launched by Amazon in 2014, a new report has claimed. VG247 claims to have word from multiple sources” that a $300 machine will be launched this year that offers the streaming and download of games, music, movies and TV content”. It will run …

Riot Games MMO being played by twice as many players compared to 2012

Former Epic developer and Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski has celebrated yesterday’s sale of the Gears of War IP to Microsoft. He also believes Rod Fergusson, another former Epic man who has also made the jump to Microsoft, is the right man for the brand’s new lease of life. …

Austin-based studio working with Vince Zampella's team to port next-gen blockbuster

Tool provider to expand San Francisco operations

Platform holder supposedly announcing new mobile initiative this Thursday

Ricardo Zacconi says company is just defending its rights, and regrets release of Pac-Avoid

Riccardo Zacconi, the CEO of King, has admitted that his company should never have released Pac-Avoid. Attention turned to the game in the wake of the Candy trademark dispute, with the accusation being that King knowingly cloned a game called Scamperghost that it had in 2009 been in negotiations to …