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If you thought buying a Steam Machine would take away the hassles of PC upgrades and quickly outdated hardware, Alienware has some news for you. One of the 14 manufacturers revealed by Valve at CES 2014 to be working on Steam Machines, Alienware has told Trusted Reviews that it plans …

2K Games’ Borderlands 2 finally has a firm release date on PlayStation Vita. The publisher has confirmed that the game will launch in the US on March 18th. There’s no word yet on a UK or European date. Friday March 21st seems like a logical guess, although that could mean …

David Cameron’s brave new world of socially responsible internetting could interfere with League of Legends. Kotaku reports that the game’s patching program attempts to access two URLs – specifically VarusExpirationTimer.luaobj and XerathMageChainsExtended.luaobj – that the filter is blocking by default due to the inclusion of the word ‘sex’. Whether a …

The reffff-er-reeee’s a… n official partner of EA Sports. EA has signed a long-term agreement with Professional Game Match Officials Limited that will run until the 2018/19 season and see match officials sporting EA Sports-branded kit wear. The new garb was seen for the first time in last night’s 1-1 …

Another console has seen its RRP significantly cut on the High Street. Argos is currently selling the Wii U Premium console along with a copy of Nintendo land for 179.99. That’s a 120 saving over the hardware’s RRP. The machine was available for as little as 200 from time to …

Tobias Staaby says Telltale's adventure game is good fodder for classroom discussions

Harmonix is rumoured to have put an end to the development of an unannounced Xbox One Kinect effort. Game industry detective Superannuation’s latest post on Kotaku points to the LinkedIn profile of the studio’s senior level designer, Rob Stokes. Stokes states on his page that the project’s development has been …

Activision's Skylanders given a run for its money in December

Candy Crush developer King has received approval from the US Patent and Trademark Office over the trademarking of the term candy.” Gamezebo reports if the trademark is published without opposition, the free-to-play studio will receive exclusive use of the term in any video games and clothing products. Should that occur, …

Browser based streaming service quietly taken down in November