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The UK’s bestselling toy line is planning to turn up the heat on Skylanders and Disney Infinity. LEGO’s popular pocket money line of Collectible Minifigures is to spawn its own game, with the toy line integrated into the title. When LEGO Minifigures Online goes live next summer, it will be …

EA has outlined some of the reasons why gamers may want to either hold out for next-gen FIFA 14 or buy the game a second time when PS4 and Xbox One are released. "There were two things we did straight away," FIFA franchise boss David Rutter told Eurogamer when asked …

Nintendo clearly wants consumers to buy a digital version of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD. Having just confirmed an October 4th release date for the Wii U title in the US – which is the same as Europe, incidentally – Nintendo has now revealed that the game will …

You have to pay it because no-one else will pay it. You have to give me money that we do Postal 2.” That’s how director Uwe Boll is pitching his attempt to crowdfund $500,000 to make a Postal 2 movie. His pitch video can be seen below, although here’s a …

Nintendo twin-screen 2DS isn’t quite what it appears. USGamer reports that the new hardware actually houses a single, large touchscreen which is separated into two and, in the case of the lower portion, reduced in size by nothing other than the handheld’s plastic casing. This means that it is only …

Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 won’t feature the rain effect or any Spanish stadiums, both for very different reasons. The omission of rain, as European community manager Adam Bhatti puts it, was down to the game being rebuilt from scratch, and the team therefore not having the time to include the …

With a little less than a month to go before its release, the battle to win FIFA 14 mindshare appears to have begun. GameStop.co.uk has revealed a similar trade-in scheme to that it is running for Grand Theft Auto V. Punters who lay down 39.97 on a copy of FIFA …

David Helgason discusses the latest changes coming from the middleware firm

Konami has confirmed a couple of features that won’t make it into the extremely promising looking PES 2014. Chief amongst them is the omission of rain. Rain has not been implemented for 2014 as we had to overhaul the whole game and build it from scratch,” a memo posted by …

Nintendo now has three options for those looking to buy into the 3DS family – and this chart explains it all very clearly. The freshly announced (and arguably confusingly branded?) 2DS is your entry-level model. It costs 109 (expect that to translate to around 100 everywhere very shortly), lacks 3D …