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Sony has reiterated that Gran Turismo 6 will arrive this year, but is still shying away from nailing down a release date. Speaking with GTPlanet about the game’s release, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president and CEO Jim Ryan said, It will be before Christmas [2013], definitely”. We gave a lot …

Microconsole and cross-platform game sessions added to conference line-up

Six million Britons play smartphone games every day according to new research from ComScore. In addition a total of 20m play games every month. That places gaming ahead of instant messaging in the most popular mobile activities race and approximately on par with photo messaging, reading the news or weather …

A surprise Nintendo Direct will take place tomorrow, the platform holder has announced. The broadcast, hosted by Nintendo President Satoru Iwata and Nintendo of Europe President Satoru Shibata,” the announcement reads. [It] will mainly provide updates on software coming to Wii U and Nintendo 3DS in the remainder of 2013.” …

Bohemia Interactive has announced that the single player campaign for Arma 3 won’t arrive until after the game is officially released. The developer now plans to release in the campaign across three free DLC episodes called Survive, Adapt and Win. The game will still ship with 12 single player showcase …

Microsoft has revealed a number of new details about Xbox One, including a significant upgrade to avatars. Chief Xbox One platform architect Marc Whitten told IGN that the company is upgrading Xbox Live avatars to allow for full-body HD gamerpics. In fact, the old 64×64 gamerpics are being ditched altogether …

Zattikka has entered administration after struggling to pay off its debts. Last month the firm revealed it was struggling to meet a loan payment of 275,000 to developer Hattrick, and was given a deadline of August 2nd to make the payment. As a result of some subsequent the sales the …

654.12m. That amazingly high figure is the number of consoles that Nintendo has sold in the last 30 years. That number breaks down into two parts, GoNintendo reports. Firstly, Nintendo has sold 268.97m home consoles – that includes sales of the NES (Famicom), SNES (Super Famicom), N64, GameCube, Wii and …