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'The reality is that they can't do what the customers want,' says Jesse Schell on Xbox One policy reversal

Green Man Gaming has announced an ambitious trade-in partnership with parcel service CollectPlus. The retailer now offers customers the chance to hand over their trade-ins to any one of over 5,250 stores (including newsagents and petrol stations) for trackable delivery back to GMG. The offer is only available for trade-ins …

Former Ouya exclusive Polarity is gearing up for a release on PC. Creator Craig Littler says the decision is down to the failure to negotiate exclusivity terms with Ouya. "I tried to negotiate with Ouya to remain exclusive but they were fairly resistant to change,” he told Eurogamer. As such …

Bidding for games firm as high as £130m, sources claim

Amazon.co.uk has named the winner of it’s The Generation’s Greatest Game competition – and it’s Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The epic RPG had to fend off Sony’s latecomer The Last of Us in the semi-final, despite the PS3 title only being released two weeks into the competition’s initial …

Fourteen years after the series’ debut, developer Sony Online Entertainment has unveiled a new chapter in the EverQuest saga – EverQuest Next. The game has been in development since 2009 although SOE scrapped everything in 2011 and started over, saying that it was intent on abandoning many of the genre’s …

Elements of the multiplayer component of The Last of Us were censored in the European release, it has been discovered. Eurogamer reports that the European version lacks some of the gore found in the US release – specifically, weapons that lead to exploding heads have been calmed to avoid the …

PlayStation Home developer experimenting with new business models

Rising development costs will eventually stifle innovation in games, says the head of Ubisoft Toronto. Speaking toDigital Spy, Jade Raymond said as expectations rise with ever-more powerful hardware, it is tougher to take risks when developers are spending in excess of $100 million to create a triple-A game. That’s for …

Dixons Travel has unveiled its first new concept store at Gatwick Airport, with floating screens, 10-inch tablet ‘look books’ and a ‘KnowHow’ bar. The new 1,466 square foot space will feature a mixture of the latest tech products and a number of travel essentials. 10-inch tablet ‘look books’ will sit …