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Tiny Tower creator NimbleBit has joined forces with Disney for a Star Wars-themed take on the game. It’s called Star Wars: Tiny Death Star. It sees players constructing floors in the not quite fully armed and operational battle station and will feature a host of recognisable characters. Live life on …

Not-for-profit organisation set up by Brian Baglow to represent game developers in Scotland

EA’s FIFA 14 has held off Grand Theft Auto V to claim its second week as the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats No.1. Sales of the football game fell 68 per cent in its second week, which is an improvement on the 72 per cent drop FIFA 13 saw in …

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag’s Skull Edition and Buccaneer Edition will release in India, distributor E-xpress Interactive has confirmed. Like the Batman: Arkham Origins Collector’s Edition, which will also release in India, these editions will be available for Xbox 360 and PS3 only. While the Skull Edition will be priced …

Former head of the RIEDC says Gov. Lincoln Chafee blocked attempts to restructure debt or raise capital

$63 million project to help studio add 100 jobs

A game based on the upcoming Bollywood superhero flick Krrish 3 has been announced for Windows devices. The game is developed by Gameshastra, and while no details have been revealed, a promotional image seems to suggest that it’s a fighting game. A teaser trailer has been released, which again doesn’t …

Korean mobile publisher buys out the competition

Steam’s latest weekly top ten selling products list has been littered with (mostly 2K published) games boosted by discount promotions. Sales on 2K Games this past weekend propelled several of the company’s titles onto the charts, including Bioshock Infinite (first), Borderlands 2 (runner-up), along with XCOM: Enemy Unknown (fourth) and …

Valve has posted hardware specifications for its SteamOS-powered Steam Machine prototype. Here they are, as listed by Valve: GPU: some units with NVidia Titan, some GTX780, some GTX760, and some GTX660 CPU: some boxes with Intel : i7-4770, some i5-4570, and some i3 RAM: 16GB DDR3-1600 (CPU), 3GB DDR5 (GPU) …