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Sega is keen on bringing additional free-to-play titles onto the 3DS beyond its upcoming microtransaction-fueled racing game, Initial D: Perfect Shift Online. In a Famitsu interview piece translated by Siliconera, Sega’s chief creative officer Toshihiro Nagoshi explained that the upcoming launch of free-to-play 3DS title Initial D: Perfect Shift Online …

The Early Access offering of DayZ has again taken first on Steam’s best ten selling titles, making it the victor for the second week running. The feat is made more impressive by the fact that the upcoming standalone Arma II mod managed to outsell every other game on Steam – …

Bully 2 rumours and the creation of the FIFA series: the top ten stories of 2013. 10.The extent of Kinect 2’s visual DRM is beginning to emerge Along with the controversial DRM on its home console, Microsoft also filed for similar restrictions on its Kinect hardware which limited the number …

The games industry has an exciting year ahead of it, but what do leading developers and platform holders believe will be the big trends of the next twelve months?

Last week, the High Street told MCV it feels 2014 will be a good year for video games retailing. But 2013, at least the first half of it, remains one to forget. Blockbuster is no more. The entertainment brand had been a staple of the UK High Street since 1989 …

Sholay, one of the most celebrated films in Indian cinema, has a new game based on it – Sholay: Bullets of Justice. A collaboration between Hungama and Gameshastra, the mobile game follows the story of Jai, Veeru and Baldev Thakur from the film. Playing as Jai and Veeru, players must …

Sales of video games in the UK have grown for the first time in five years. According to the Entertainment Retailer’s Association, based on GfK Chart-Track and IHS data, revenue generated by game sales grew by 6.6 per cent in 2013. But that is mostly down to huge growth in …

PS4 and Xbox One posted incredible sales figures in the UK, with Sony coming out on top. PlayStation 4 has sold 530,000 units in the UK in just five weeks, according to ERA (using Chart-Track data), while Xbox One has sold 364,000 units. It’s a significant gap between the two …

The Top 20 Entertainment Products of 2013 are in, and it’s unsurprising to see Grand Theft Auto V come out on top, with 3.67m units sold. It comfortably beats competition from the James Bond movie Skyfall, which sold 2.96m units last year on DVD and Blu-ray. That means Call of …

GAME’s Christmas Tinner and Resident Evil’s return to its horror roots. The 11th to 20th most read stories of 2013. 20.Minecraft for PS3 creeps toward release Mojang teased that a version of their bestselling construction game would be heading to PlayStation 3. Of course, it eventually come out on December …