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PS3 and PC gamers won’t have to wait long for current critical darling Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. The Starbreeze Studios game will be released on PSN and Steam on August 28th according to publisher 505 Games. The game arrived on Xbox Live Arcade yesterday amidst a sea of …

A year ago Sega restructured its Western business, with a bigger emphasis on digital content and more attention given to its core IPs. Did it work? MCV quizzed European chief Jurgen Post to find out… We are one year on from the restructure. What’s the progress been since? Did the …

The next generation of AMD PC graphics cards will be officially revealed on September 25th. BSN reports that AMD’s 9000 flagship, codenamed Hawaii and part of its Volcanic Islands family of cards, will be shown off at a special press even tin Hawaii itself. It will presumably carry the 9970 …

Elder Scrolls Online and Dishonored publisher puts decision down to technical limitations

The Wii U version of Rayman Legends will offer an extra goodie for Nintendo fans. Ubisoft has announced that players will after 20 minutes be able to unlock Mario and Luigi skins for the characters Rayman and Globox respectively. Hopefully the move will help pacify the many who Nintendo fans …

Nintendo president vows to keep company's roster of big-name franchises to itself

The UK games retail market has suffered its worst month in history. Just over 1m boxed games were sold last month, 40.4 per cent lower than June and 33.3 per cent below July 2012. In total stores generated just over 23m from game sales, almost half the figure posted the …

London football club Tottenham Hotspur has launched a new children’s internet game called Tottenham Turfies. It will be playable in browsers and will also be released on both Android and iOS. Spurs reckons it’s the world’s first fully-interactive digital experience for children to be created and developed by a football …

Developer Starbreeze Studios has announced that Payday 2, which isn’t even released until next week, has already hit profit. Payday 2 hits PC next Tuesday (August 13th) and PS3 and Xbox 30 the following Friday. A translation from GameChup from Starbreeze CEO Bo Andersson-Klint says that the game’s pre-orders have …

DigitalDNA on the era of the indie and why backing old publishing models isn't enough