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Valve’s gaming platform sees 30 per cent growth in last year

PC digital game network Steam has released another set of impressive numbers. The Valve-owned service now has over 65m registered users – that’s a jump of 30 per cent year-on-year for the last 12 months. This is the tenth year it has been in operation. Steam now has a games …

Eight classic Sega titles have received 3D makeovers ready for a digital release on Nintendo’s 3DS. 3D Space Harrier, 3D Super Hang-On, 3D Sonic The Hedgehog, 3D Altered Beast, 3D Ecco the Dolphin, 3D Galaxy Force II, 3D Shinobi III, and 3D Streets of Rage will be released in batches …

It will come as no surprise that EA is planning an officially licensed World Cup 2014 video game. The confirmation came from EA’s CEO Andrew Wilson in last night’s investor call, as transcribed by Seeking Alpha. In the last two weeks, you’ve also seen several announcements about our product slate …

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Former Iamantisocial Entertainment CEO impressed by mobile studio’s 'dedication'

A digital-only F1 game is on the way to Wii U from Codemasters. It’s called F1 Race Stars: Powered Up Edition and is basically a beefed-up version of the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC racer released last November. Despite its Mario Kart-like appearance it features lots of officially licensed real …

Nexon leads series B funding round to bring total investment in the company to $35m

Strategy Analytics thinks the upcoming console generation will fall well short of the financial success enjoyed by our current machines. As well as predicting a 15 per cent decline year-on-year for console hardware sales in 2013, the firm also reckons that the expected peak in 2016 will still represent a …

GAME, PlayStation, Twitch, Twitter, Google and more to speak at key industry event