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There are just two weeks to go until the London Games Conference – time’s running out if you want to be there. Our influential conference this year features top-flight execs from the likes of GAME, PlayStation, Twitch, Twitter, Google and many others. It takes place on November 13th at One …

The PS4 and Xbox One could easily ship 10m units between them by March next year, EA COO Peter Moore believes. In an earnings call, viaSeeking Alpha, Moore said that indications he had received from Microsoft and Sony suggested the next-gen consoles could be in plentiful supply. "When I talked …

'Sony and Microsoft are proposing that this could be their best launches ever,' says Peter Moore

Publisher EA has reported a $273m loss for the quarter ending September 30th. That’s less than the $381m loss reported in the same quarter the year before. Net revenue for the period reached $695m. Digital revenue climbed to $450m, up from $324m a year earlier. That means digital accounted for …

It’s almost Call of Duty time, and Activision is planning a star-studded launch party to celebrate. Football stars Daniel Sturridge and Andros Townsend will be joined by Wretch 32, Jamal Edwards and Martyn Littlewood, along with music duo Rizzle Kicks. The A-listers will all face-off against each other in Call …

Intel Developer Blog: Softtalkblog looks at the key takeaways for developers from Intel's latest HTML5 event

UK rap star Tinie Tempah is the focus of Sony’s latest bit of PS4 marketing. The 24-year old hip hopper appears in a new interactive documentary” in which viewers can use their smartphone to access competitions and PS4-related content. The video features a track from Mr. Tempah’s new album Demonstration. …

Support for mobile SDK extended to Microsoft’s mobile and tablet platforms

Lifetime sales for console sit at 3.91m nearly a year after launch