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Microsoft has announced the creation of a European publishing team, which will be led by Lionhead Studio’s boss John Needham. "What we’re trying to do with this team – it’s a first party publishing group – is across Europe find triple-A quality games that we can publish," Needham told GamesInudstry …

A look at how the top studios informed the creation of Havok's new tool suite

Nintendo has an annoying habit of defying what many people expect them to do. After conditioning the games press into expecting precise and targeted Nintendo Direct messaging, yesterday’s 2DS announcement was a bit of a ham-fisted mess. While lots of people will peer at the peculiar 2DS and wonder what …

Xbox 360 is getting another free-to-play war title – Crytek’s Warface. The Korean developed title offers your typical FPS multiplayer fair and is due to arrive on Microsoft machine some time in 2014. Wargaming’s free-to-play World of Tanks is due for release on Xbox 360 some time later this year. …

With the game now just a little over two weeks away, Rockstar has released what it describes as the ‘official’ trailer for Grand Theft Auto V. And you can see it below. The short, which focuses more on characters and story, makes more of an effort to hype the game’s …

Local developers come together to support regional games hub

'The stuff Unity is launching on day one is going to be ahead of what anyone else is giving'

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 …