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Online retailer Amazon is planning to ship orders to customers before they have even pressed the ‘buy’ button’. Wall Street Journal reports that the company has applied to patent for a method called anticipatory shipping”, the function of which is to minimise the wait between ordering and receiving to such …

Massive Entertainment’s Jesper Carlson discusses the key skills needed for his role in programming

DayZ has for the first time since its release in December been knocked off the top of Steam’s best selling list. And its conqueror? None other than fellow early access sandbox title Rust. Of course it’s unlikely that Rust’s overall sales have caught up with DayZ. It was announced on …

Square Enix’s Tomb Raider reboot has finally recouped its development costs. The game arrived in March 2013 and debuted at No.1 in the UK charts, becoming the then most successful launch of the year in the process. But despite sales of 3.4m copies in its first three weeks it fell …

Promising LucasArts title may no longer be in development

New RPG from creator of Ultima has now received more than $3m in donations

Felix Kjellberg – aka PewDiePie – was the most watched person on YouTube in the second half of 2013. The divisive 24 year old Swede, who now lives in the UK and made his name thanks to a string of highly successful gaming videos, beat the likes of Miley Cyrus, …

Tencent’s free-to-play shooter CrossFire brought in revenues of nearly $1 billion in 2013. That’s according to research fromSuperDatawhich found that the SmileGate-developed title brought in over 50 per cent more revenue than Riot Games’ hugely successful MoBA League of Legends – also published by Tencent – which took $624 million …

Shares drop to less than 12,000 yen on Tokyo Stock Exchange

Free-to-play shooter smashes revenues from Riot Games MoBA League of Legends which brought in $624m