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Sony has projected 5m sales for Playstation 4 by the end of its current fiscal year. Speaking at Sony’s keynote at Tokyo Game Show, CEO Andrew House announced the target for the end of its fiscal year –though failed to specify whether he was referring to the company’s active year …

Rockstar's latest blockbuster tops previous record setter Call of Duty: Black Ops II by $300m

Last year Activision proudly announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops II made $500m in 24 hours. It was a world record for an amount of money made by an entertainment product. Now, not only has GTA V beaten it, but it has smashed it by an astonishing $300m. GTA …

Grand Theft Auto V has beaten Call of Duty: Black Ops to become the UK’s biggest ever video game launch. GfK Chart Track data reveals GTA V sold 1.57m units during its first day on sale, generating over 65m in revenue. It breaks the previous record set by Activision’s Call …

Nintendo will visit train stations in Waterloo, London and Manchester Piccadilly in a celebration of all things 3DS. Entitled ‘National StreetPass Day,’ the event –which takes place at September 28th – will feature ‘real-life StreetPass games’ and competitions. Gamers can compete in Mario Kart 7 and Luigi’s Mansion 2 contests …

The third Riddick game unearthed online last week is real… but is also likely not what you expected. Eurogamer reports that Riddick: The Merc Files is due out on iOS on Friday September 20th. Its development team includes some who previously worked on Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay …

Microsoft hopes that it can one day bring its incredibly successful Xbox 360 franchise Gears of War to Xbox One. There’s bad news, though – it doesn’t sound like there are any plans in place at the moment. Gears of War is developed by Epic Games, and they’ve been our …

Can a Hamburg music festival become the SXSW of Europe?

Potential Ouya game Dungeons the Eye of Draconus has been unceremoniously booted from Ouya’s Free The Games Fund program following suspicious activity on Kickstarter. The move can be interpreted as Ouya finally responding to the increasing criticism it has endured for its lackadaisical stance toward what appear to be some …

Eyesodic Games' Dan Kenny offers some useful advice for creating your next title