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Activision has launched a free companion app for its popular Skylanders franchise. The Skylanders Collection Vault can be downloaded now from Apple’s App Store, providing fans a way to browse and manage collections on their iPhone or iPad. The app lets users compare lists with other players as well, and …

First third-party device in Valve's living room Steam Scheme appears

The picture to your right shows what will soon become one of the first commercially available Steam Boxes. It’s made by iBuyPower, which has told The Verge that it hopes to have the device on the market in 2014. It currently runs an early version of Steam OS and, to …

Masamichi Abe's current project teased by Tekken's Katsuhiro Harada

Valve is offering Steam users a megaphone to voice their opinions about games through Steam Reviews. The new system is about to enter beta, and is set to replace the current Steam Recommendations system – more similar to Facebook ‘likes’ than actual reviews – borrowing the upvote/downvote mechanic of web …

Here's a taster of what to expect in the latest Develop 100, out tomorrow

Young studio shuts doors after five years, but promises to fill Kickstarter backer rewards

There will be a total of ten apps available on PS4 in the UK when the machine launches. Unlike on Xbox One, users will not be required to have a PlayStation Plus subscription to access the services, although obviously some (such as Netflix) do require users have a specific service …

US investor Carl Icahn is no longer involved with Take-Two after the publisher bought out the outspoken exec’s share interest. Take-Two acquired all of Icahn’s stocks at yesterday’s $16.93 closing price, representing a transaction worth a total of $203.5m. As per previous agreements, as a result of the buyout all …

Call of Duty: Ghosts has emerged as the big winner in the next-gen games race, Activision has claimed. The publisher says that Ghosts is the best-selling Xbox One and PS4 title at leading retailers” (that’s GameStop, best Buy, Walmart and Target) in North America. It also reckons it’s the most …