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The collectible Zelda music box revealed by Nintendo earlier this week will not be a pre-order bonus after all. Nintendo had suggested that the trinket would be offered to those who pre-order 3DS title The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. However, it will actually be for those who …

Nvidia has revealed three ‘holiday bundles’ for its range of graphics cards, whereby each card will be undled with two or more upcoming games. Depending on the card purchased, customers will get download codes for Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, with Batman: Arkham Origins being also …

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Zynga’s Justin Waldron is leaving the company he co-founded over six years ago. This comes as the social game maker has swapped out former CEO and founder Mark Pincus for former Xbox head Don Mattrick, and a year of several high-level executive departures. I’ve decided it’s time to leave zynga …

Yoshida says development team needs more time to improve visuals and overall game experience

One of the most influential video games forums on the internet has suffered a security breach. Users of NeoGaf will upon their next visit find that they are asked to change their password. We’ve just had an admin account compromised briefly by an automated attack,” a statement confirmed. The hole …

It’s a bad day for PS4 with the news that yet another launch title for the machine has slipped into the New Year. As if Sony’s silence on the issue wasn’t confirmation enough, the company has now officially confirmed that DriveClub will not now be released until early 2014. DriveClub …

AMD has given the greenlight for a handful of tech sites to publish what are the first official benchmarks for its as-of-yet unannounced R9 290X graphics card. The headline is that it seems to beat Nvidia’s GTX 780 (which is its second highest performing card behind only the Titan) by …

GungHo's flagship title amasses 20 million users

One of the most successful video games of recent times is finally available on iOS in the UK. Puzzle & Dragons, from Japanese developer GungHo Entertainment, quietly slipped onto the Apple App Store on Wednesday night to surprisingly little furore. Indeed, there’s a chance you’ve never heard of it despite …