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It’s not often that a pair of games topping the charts brings bad news for their respective publishers. PS3 title Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and Wii U platformer Super Mario 3D World entered the weekly Japanese charts in first and second spots today, but both point to serious declines …

The price of several PS4 game downloads on PSN has been reduced, bringing parity with the Xbox One versions. Eurogamer reports that games such as FIFA 14, Need for Speed Rivals and Battlefield 4 have now been cut to 54.99 on PSN. That’s a lot less than the 62.99 at …

Online retailer Amazon is to start offering Sunday deliveries in the UK for the first time this Christmas. The website is teaming up with a number of local courier and delivery firms in a move that further reduces the immediacy advantage currently enjoyed by the High Street. Throughout the Christmas …

Console giant testing the waters with Ryse and Forza 5

UK retailer GAME has opened 12 new stores in the run-up to the Christmas trading period. Game Retail’s stores director Dave Howard confirmed to MCV that the chain has opened four new permanent stores and eight temporary stores, while four stores have been relocated. The firm hopes the new outlets …

Studio head for Germany branch to be appointed in January

A look at what a Formula 1 team with a sold out £1 million sports car has to offer Turn 10’s developers

The launch of Xbox One and PS4 is awash with free games. Or rather, freemium games. Glorified demos that if players want full access to, they’ll have to pay. Free-to-play has become the dominant force in mobile, almost entirely replacing the premium model. But EA Studios boss Patrick Sderlund is …

Back in April, EA was voted the worst company in America for the second year on the trot. And you’d expect a games publisher as big as EA, with execs as bullish as Andrew Wilson or Peter Moore, to simply brush that off. After all, EA isn’t exactly supplying guns …

Intel Developer Blog: Attendees will be treated to sessions on free Android tools and more