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Development of sword fighting game Clang has been put on hold, despite the game successfully hitting its Kickstarter target last year. The game raised a total of $526,125 last July, just passing its $500,000 goal. The future of the title, however, remains very uncertain. We’ve hit the pause button on …

The Xbox One is not a machine that should be stood vertically, according to Microsoft. This, according to Microsoft’s senior director of product management and planning at Xbox Albert Panello, is due to its use of a slot-loading disc drive. "We don’t support vertical orientation; do it at your own …

Naoto Hiraoka says Sega is looking to drive awareness of the Atlus brand

A new Grand Theft Auto set in London wouldn’t really be a GTA game at all, Rockstar’s Dan Houser has argued. 1999’s Grand Theft Auto: London was the second release in the series and the possibility of the franchise making a return to the UK has been a subject of …

Publishers holding back game development to focus on PS4 and Xbox One releases

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has paid tribute to his predecessor Hiroshi Yamauchi. Yamauchi passed away yesterday morning in a Kyoto hospital after a battle with pneumonia. In a statement released by Iwata, the platform holder’s current boss vowed to stay true to the values that saw Yamauchi make Nintendo the …

Sony has announced that the PlayStation 4 will release in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea in December, and with no Indian release date yet, this could be bad news for Sony India. The December release window for Asia will surely put pressure on Sony India to release the …

PS4 users will be able to control some elements of the console using gestures and voice. The news, Engadget reports, comes from the Tokyo Game Show. It is understood that Sony’s PlayStation Eye was at one stage a compulsory element of the console that was to be bundled with the …

Start-up claims to turn web browsers in to consoles and cut dev time and costs in half

Crowdfunded medieval sword combat game is latest Kickstarter to come up short