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The big hits just keep coming this time of year and tonight it’s the turn of Call of Duty: Ghosts, which arrives worldwide at midnight. Although it will have to perform far beyond expectations to topple Grand Theft Auto V’s record-breaking 2013 performance, Ghosts will undoubtedly be one of the …

VP of marketing Matthew DiPietro expects a 'watershed moment' for game broadcasting once service goes live

Neither Journey nor The Unfinished Swan are coming to PlayStation 4. Speculation that the pair were heading to Sony’s new console began after Sony Santa Monica’s creative director Nathan Gary tweeted pictures of Flower, Escape Plan and flOw being played on the machine. Pictures of The Unfinished Swan and Journey …

Iconic games, media and entertainment firms have confirmed their place at next week’s London Games Conference. Activision, Disney, GFK, Konami, Mediacom, Multiplay, Penguin Digital, Sega, Wikia and Yogscast are just a few of the companies with execs in attendance. If you want to join them, hurry: few tickets remain. Click …

Call of Duty: Ghosts is out tomorrow, and Activision has launched a new hype-inducing trailer to boot. The publisher has even recruited Hollywood starlet Fox to make a cameo appearance in the new live-action video. Epic Night Out, as it’s called, has a group of four average Joes blast their …

Gears of War: Judgment developer now working on Fortnite

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag has won this week’s heated race to claim the UKIE GfK Chart-Track UK No.1 spot. EA’s Battlefield 4 has to settle for second place in its first week, although both titles fail to match the numbers recorded by their respective previous instalments – presumably …

Destiny developer Bungie is hoping to get a ton of testers in on the game’s beta in hopes to avoid many of the issues the launch of Grand Theft Auto Online faced. Speaking with IGN, Bungie senior writer Eric Obsborne discussed how the team needs a large number of gamers …

The Google Play store saw 25 per cent more downloads this past quarter than Apple’s App Store, but was still behind in revenue by 50 per cent. The figures come from App Annie’s Q3 2013 report, which states that new markets in Brazil and Argentina have had a major influence …

Football Manager 2014 has come out on top of the past week’s top ten sellers on Steam. The sports sim finished ahead of pre-orders for the latest Call of Duty entry, as well as Batman: Arkham Origins – the previous week’s winner. Early access title Space Engineers finished in fourth, …