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Layoffs at Czech branch as development team moves to Brno office and California HQ

Entry-level game engine arrives on Valve’s PC store via Greenlight

A new Far Cry compilation has been announced by Ubisoft for release in the UK on Valentines Day. It’s called Far Cry: The Wild Expedition and contains Far Cry Classic, Far Cry 2, Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. It will be released on PS3, Xbox 360 …

The recently released PC version of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance on Steam appears to crash if a user’s internet connection is lost. Numerous users have taken to the Steam forums to complain both that the game – which is entirely single player – won’t launch at all in offline mode …

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Parental controls exit beta as company prepares to enter the living room

Four years of "patent troll" litigation ends with sheriff's sale

Joe Staten heads back to Halo publisher's internal studios after 15 years at Bungie

Sony has released the ‘crystal white’ PS Vita as a standalone product, not that the firm is keen on sharing that information. Kotakureports the device has quietly appeared on Amazon for $199, though no other retailers are currently carrying the handheld. Sony, for its part, has provided no details on …

Kickstarter has posted its year in review piece, announcing that the crowdfunding site helped successfully fund nearly 20,000 projects in 2013. Posting on itssite, the company revealed that last year $480m was pledged from 3m accounts. That’s over $1.3m a day, or $913 a minute. Of those 3m individuals, 800,000 …