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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn will arrive on PS4 sometime in April, Square Enix has announced. The publisher also revealed a PS4 beta phase will take place on Feburary 22nd, 2014 in North America and Japan – though no mention on whether Europe will be included or receive its …

The living room dominance Microsoft and Sony experience with consoles will soon be challenged, EA CEO Andrew Wilson reckons. Games Industry reports Wilson touched on the subject with investors this week at the Credit Suisse 2013 Technology Conference, stating that in a matter of a few years company’s including Apple, …

Atlus has announced Persona 4 Golden has shipped 700k copies since the title launched last year exclusively on PS Vita. The Japanese publisher, which recently became a part of Sega, also shared that its controversial fantasy brawler Dragon’s Crown has shipped 800k across PS3 and Vita platforms since its launch …

Retailers will not be permitted to sell the HTC One Mini smartphone as of this Friday (Dec 6th) in the UK. Nokia has triumphed in a patent dispute with rival HTC, ruling that the handset infringes some Nokia-owned patents. HTC had tried to argue that Nokia was not one of …

Namco Bandai’s Ridge Racer IP is to try its hand at smartphones. The brand is to mark its 20th birthday by releasing an iOS and Android title called Ridge Racer Slipstream that will, according to the publisher, bring the series’ popular racing and drifting mechanics to a new racing engine”. …

New research from Way To Blue has suggested that PS4 put in a stronger social media performance than Xbox One in their respective 72 hour launch periods. UK data showed that in its first three days of availability Xbox One had 50,703 social media mentions, 11 per cent of which …

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Auto-running platformer Galaxy Run from Spiel Studios is set for release tomorrow (4th December) on the App Store. Galaxy Run features one-touch controls and over 350 single-screen levels, with gameplay variations in the form of gravity shifts, hooks, springboards and more. Spiel Studios is part of New York-based game publishing …

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has said that Metal Gear Solid V will require much more time” in development. The acclaimed developer admitted that he didn’t initially want to release teaser title MGS: Ground Zeroes separately but felt forced to after realising how long the wait for the ‘proper’ …

And trade body UKIE has assisted more than 30 of them in travel and exhibition costs