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Charitable sales platform is on mark to break records with 1m units sold

PopCap’s tower defence phenomenon Plants vs Zombies has made its long awaited return. As with most of EA’s popular mobile franchises, Plants vs Zombies 2: It’s About Time has gone free-to-play, and this time around, the game will take players through multiple historical time periods. The developers plan to roll …

Rift, Defiance developer closes second studio in a week

Grand Theft Auto 5 will let you and your friends ride your dirt bikes off a cliff and parachute down to the ground in tandem. That and a whole lot more is possible in Grand Theft Auto Online. Yesterday, Rockstar Games showed off the online features of GTA 5, revealing …

The rumours claiming Arkane Austin is working on Prey 2 are true, they just don’t want anyone to know about it yet. In an internal email obtained by Kotaku, Arkane’s creative director Ralph Colantonio stated that the Texas-based studio would be developing Prey 2, and that it would be a …

Blizzard has teamed up with GAME to stage Diablo III lock-in events across the UK in celebration of the game’s console debut. The events will be held at 18 of the retailer’s stores across the UK and take place on August 29th and 30th. Consumers will be able to go …

The Financial Times reports today that Microsoft has replaced the sci-fi dedicated channel Syfy as the backer of a rebooted Blake’s 7. The original announcement of the new thirteen-part series came last April from Fremantle Media. At the time, Fremantle outlined the show scenario as so: ‘The year is 2136, …

Grand Theft Auto Online is being pitched as on on-going and long-term service – does that mean it will inevitably arrive on PS4 and Xbox One? There’s very few games like GTA Online – so we’ll play it by ear and see what the consumers want,” Rockstar North president Leslie …

Boutiq teams up with ex-LucasArts designer to establish IF Games

Rockstar has announced Grand Theft Auto Online, a dynamic and persistent online world for 16 players”. It’s pitched as a playground for an assortment of organised and spontaneous frolics, with players able to developer persistent characters. Importantly, this is a standalone product from Grand Theft Auto V, although it will …