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Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare will be a multiplayer only affair, a fact EA states will allow the publisher to sell it at a lower price online and at retail. Speaking with Shacknews, creative director Justin Wiebe confirmed that the FPS-take on PopCap’s tower defense franchise will be multiplayer only. …

Chris Robert’s Start Citizen crowdfunding experiment has reached new heights, crossing the $17m mark in raised funding. Incredibly, only $2.1m of that total was brought in by the project’s run on Kickstarter, meaning nearly $15m has been raised by other avenues such as direct PayPal donations. The in-development space simulator …

2K's Tom Bass is digital publisher's new VP of Marketing

Apple has sent out invitations for an event next week rumored to feature the debut of the iPhone 5S, as well as the iPhone 5C. The Verge reports on the official invite from the hardware maker, which reveals a press event taking place on September 10th at Apple’s campus in …

Chris Jarvis claims for minimum wage after working full-time hours for three months

Momentum behind PlayStation Vita is finally building, says Sony. The UK team has seen sales of Vita increase 100 per cent during the summer, partly thanks to the launch of its Mega Pack – which is a collection of ten Vita games, bundled onto an 8GB memory card, for 35. …

Publisher 505 Games is releasing digital hit Terraria in a box because it’s missing out on sales. The 2011 PC action construction game was launched on PSN and XBLA via 505 Games this year. It has sold over 2m copies, but now 505 is releasing the game in a box …

Senior figures from King, Lionhead, ARM and Lockwood among new board members

Simultaneous digital and physical launches on Xbox 360 are almost a reality. Payday 2 was available to buy on Xbox Live Arcade just a week after it was launched at retail. Microsoft had previously insisted on a three-month wait between the physical launch and its digital release. It’s still not …

The Awesome Game Studio’s arcade-styled educational puzzle game Alphaman is out now for iOS and Android. Alphaman mixes maze puzzles with spelling challenges through 11 maps, each with its own theme. The game tasks players with making Alphaman eat letters in the correct order for accurate spelling, failing which he …