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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 …

A group from the UK games industry has today established Dev Union, which hopes to encourage debate around the establishment of a UK trade union for those in the games industry. The proposed trade union would be called the UK Video Game Workers Association. "The Idea of a Union was …

Dev Union movement to encourage debate on addressing fair treatment of staff in development and publishing

A new free-to-play title from Codemasters has been released on iTunes. It’s called Boom! Tanks and features a range of iconic classic and contemporary tanks including the American M1 Abrams, Russian T-80U and British Challenger”. There are lots of personalisation options and of course an in-game currency that is used …

Sports Interactive has confirmed the PC, Mac and Linux release date for Football Manager 2014. The game will be released on Thursday October 31st. I get so many requests for the release date on Twitter, but we’ll only ever announce a date when we’re sure we’re going to hit it,” …

The URL Xbone.com is now the property of Microsoft. Fusible reports that the Xbox One platform holder recently acquired the domain. ‘Xbone’ has amongst some circles become the go-to nickname for Microsoft’s upcoming machine. The news comes after Microsoft’s community man Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hyrb recently admitted on NeoGaf that …

Remember the days when getting hold of a game early was as easy as popping down to your local indie? These are not those days. Unless you’re Spanish. A report on the Spanish version of Gamereactor reckons that a number of chains have put the game on sale today. The …