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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 …

Industry veteran Ron Powers joins puzzle developer

Another executive heads out after more than six years with the company