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Legal row between former friends at Gearbox and 3D Realms ends

Online payment service hopes to cut back on unnecessary frozen accounts

South Korean online PC game studio picked up by major Asian publisher

India’s largest retailer for games, Flipkart.com, has said it will ship out preorders of Grand Theft Auto 5 on 16thSeptember,a day prior to release date. In an email sent to all preorder customers, it said, ‘The game is being officially launched in India on September 17th 2013. Please note that …

Indie studio The Fullbright Company has announced its debut effort Gone Home has sold 50,000 copies prior to the conclusion of its launch month. Posting on Fullbright’s website, co-founder Steve Gaynor revealed the milestone – along with news that the game has been selected as a finalist for upcoming indie …

Total War: Rome II maintains its lead ahead of Payday 2 and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, on Steam’s latest weekly top selling products chart. While Rome II and Payday 2 continued to hold their positions, the sequel to Amnesia made a big leap up the list from ninth to …

Hardware maker Hyperkin has opened up pre-orders for its RetroN 5, a console that supports cartridges from nine different classic consoles and handhelds. Amazon lists the device at $99.99, with a launch date of October 31st. The console plays NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, GBA, Sega Genesis, Famicom, …

Gameloft has attributed around €1.1 million in expenses to restructuring of operations in India and the Philippines. Gameloft abruptly shut down its Hyderabad studio earlier this year, in the process laying off over 200 employees with no advance notice, explanation, or severance pay. In a financial statement outlining the first …

Call of Duty: Ghosts has just gone up for preorder on the Indian PlayStation Store and there’s a massive difference in price from the retail version. While you can preorder the disc version of the game at retailers for Rs 4,299, on PSN, it’s available for Rs 2,799 only. That’s …

There is uproar on the European PSN forums this afternoon following the delay of the Grand Theft Auto V pre-load. Customers who had been pre-ordered the PS3 game on Sony’s digital service had, via a message in their download queue, been previously told that the 17GB download would be available …