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Specific launch dates for the Playstation 4 may arrive this week, as Sony has teased it will be sharing release plans” for the new hardware at Gamescom. A post on the Playstation Europe blog describes the content of Sony’s August 20th press conference as a briefing on the hardware maker’s …

Steam’s latest top ten selling products chart has Payday 2 maintaining its hold on the top spot during its launch week. The heist game finished ahead of Saints Row IV in the runner-up position, Total War: Rome II in third, and The Bureau: XCOM Declassified in fourth. Chart mainstay Skyrim …

Well, this one somehow slipped under the radar. Evolution Studios’ PS4 social racer Driveclub is set to feature India amongst its many exotic locations. This new detail was revealed when The Guardian visited the developer’s studio to check out the game in action. Driveclub is a co-op and multiplayer focussed …

The executive producer of Call of Duty: Ghosts has said that the PC version of the game will boast the strongest visuals. That’s perhaps not surprising, of course – it’s not difficult to beat a next-gen beating gaming PC right now on a moderate budget – but with development currently …

While it’s expected that FIFA 14 will be drastically different on current-gen and next-gen systems, thanks chiefly to the EA Sports Ignite engine being employed on PS4 and Xbox One, the Living Worlds feature, which will be exclusively in the next-gen versions could well be the biggest differentiator. FIFA 14 …

Another Warhammer game, this time in the form of a free-to-play title

The success or otherwise of Disney Infinity could decide the ultimate fate of Disney’s video games ambitions. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which claims that the company has invested well over $100m” in the game’s development and deployment, citing people close to the company”. Said source is quoted: …

Latest from struggling Disney Interactive studio sports nine-figure budget

Codemasters will only make 10,000 units of F1 2013 Classic Edition available in the UK. That comes as part of a detailed breakdown of exactly what extras will be offered in the SKU, which will release alongside the vanilla F1 2013 on October 4th. GAME is currently selling F1 2013 …

Guild Wars 2 has claimed an impressive sales record, if publisher NCsoft is to be believed. The company says that Guild Wars 2 ranks as the all-time fastest selling Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) in Europe and North America” with sales of 3m units in its first nine months …