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Call of Duty: Ghosts is now available from ShopTo.net after the retailer and Activision settled their differences regarding the title. It was revealed in May that ShopTo would not be stocking the game after a disagreement with the publisher regarding the day on which it was able to post orders …

Maker of anxiety-relief aid Playlab London will be given £50,000 to develop the app further

Clash of Clans developer eyes the same sort of player engagement and reach as World of Warcraft

Sony has opened up digital pre-orders for a pair of PS4 launch titles on PSN and the Sony Entertainment Network online store. PlayStation’s Twitter account announces PS3 owners now have the ability to reserve PS4 digital downloads of Crytek’s free-to-play shooter Warframe and SCE Japan’s action game Knack. Knack is …

Kickstarter is planning a November launch in Australia and New Zealand. The crowdfunding platform’s official site currently hosts a splash page revealing November 13th as the go ahead date for regional projects – though interested developers can start readying their campaigns immediately. The company is also hosting ‘Kickstarter Schools,’ a …

Monster Hunter 4 has surpassed 3m copies shipped in its first month. Capcomannounces the figure was reached across both retail and digital versions of the game. The milestone brings the lifetime sales total for the Monster Hunter series to 26m units sold. Monster Hunter 4 launched on September 14th in …

GallantCloud's Paul Rayment discusses how the early stages of the Microsoft Ventures UK Accelerator Programme have gone so far

Ubisoft has delayed Watch Dogs, once its most anticipated games of the year and one of the more promising next-gen launch titles. The game was initially set for a 22nd November release for current and next-gen consoles and PC, but has now been pushed back to a vague spring 2014 …

One of the biggest games of the next-generation will not be out this year. Watch Dogs was due out on November 22nd, and was a major launch title for Xbox One and PS4. But the firm has had to delay the title until Spring 2014 as the title requires ‘extra …