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Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag locks away one of its single player features to those who have not registered an Online Pass. Ubisoft is one of the last remaining publishers to stick with the Online Pass system. ACIV sticks with the tried and tested method of requiring a code before …

Marmalade talks about the huge opportunity Tizen offers game developers

Axis Animation had to meet challenges both creative and technical to retain Fable’s art style while still bringing a level of realism to the trailer for Lionhead’s Xbox One debut

Nintendo’s latest financial report has revealed more disappointing sales for Nintendo’s Wii U. Over the company’s last six months Wii U has sold just 460k units worldwide, with 300k of those selling in the quarter ending September 30th. It admitted that the release of Pikmin 3 and Wind Waker HD …

Troubled UK retailer Blockbuster WILL refund customers who have paid for PS4 or Xbox One pre-orders. Having announced its intention to re-enter administration yesterday, the chain’s Twitter feed was responding to pre-order enquiries with what could easily have been interpreted as non-committal statements. However, it has now categorically stated that …

Sony is continuing its trend of pricing first-party games way cheaper on PSN than at retail. The latest example is Tearaway. Media Molecule’s long-awaited PS Vita debut is priced Rs 2,499 at retail, but is now up for preorder on PSN for just Rs 1,579; that’s almost Rs 1,000 less. …

Telltale Games has released a trailer for the highly anticipated second season of The Walking Dead, revealing that the first episode is expected to launch before the end of the year. The news comes via the PlayStation US blog, which confirms a PS3 and Vita release – but makes no …

Borderlands 2 has shipped over 7.5m copies at retail, and is on track to become 2K Games’ highest-selling title ever. Take-Two revealed the latest figures for physical copies of Gearbox’s sequel as part of the publisher’s Q2 2014 financial results. "Borderlands 2 has sold-in over 7.5 million units and counting, …

Just a couple of days from release, WWE 2K14 has received a change in price. Games the Shop was first to drop the price from the earlier MRP of Rs 2,999 to Rs 2,499, but the new price has since also been adopted by other retailers like Flipkart and Game4u, …

Grand Theft Auto V shipments are closing in on 29m copies, Take-Two has announced. The publisher revealed the staggering figure as part of its latest quarterly earnings report, adding that the game’s has surpassed the lifetime total for Grand Theft Auto IV units shipped. "[Grand Theft Auto V is an] …