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Sony has halted day one pre-orders of PS4 – but only as a precaution, MCV understands. The firm told retailers last week to stop guaranteeing consoles to consumers for launch day. Yet we understand that Sony expects more stock as we approach the PS4 launch. And some machines WILL be …

New research shows 80 per cent of campaigns fall short of 25per cent of their goal

Ubisoft has announced a partnership with Hasbro to develop and publish a number of console releases based on the toy maker’s popular board games. It marks an end to Hasbro’s long-term deal for console games with EA, although the firm will still make mobile games based on Hasbro properties. Monopoly, …

Nintendo shares users for co-op and multiplayer modes in Cubemen 2

New Star Soccer, widely hailed as the best football game for mobile devices, is getting its long awaited 1.5 version update next month. The BAFTA award winning game has been downloaded more than 2.7 million times since its March 2012 release and the new update adds lots of new content …

Warner Bros. has revealed the Collector’s Edition for Batman: Arkham Origins, and it includes a statue featuring Batman and Joker. Aside from the 12-inch statue and the game, the package will include the following: 80-page, full-colour hardcover artbook Assassin’s Intel Dossier, including files on the eight assassins, as well as …

Classic board games will appear on next-gen platforms

The Awesome Game Studio has announced Alphaman, which mixes puzzles with arcade entertainment and education through spelling and reading. The game will include 11 maps, where players can pick up ‘Alphapowers’ to help Alphaman gain super powers, teleport and multiply speed to combat enemies and move to the next map. …

Deep Silver has announced the latest effort in the Dead Island franchise, a free-to-play MOBA game dubbed Dead Island: Epidemic. The multiplayer online battle arena title consists of three teams of players battling against one another while also trying to survive the ever-approaching undead hordes of the Dead Island universe. …

Bethesda is preparing a Game of the Year Edition of Dishonored, according to a new listing on the Australian Classification Board. Polygon reports the board rates the upgraded version of the hit stealth action game MA 15+, but makes no mention of a release target or platforms. The standard edition …