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Aveline de Grandpr, the star of Assassin’s Creed: Liberation, will appear exclusively on the PS3 and PS4 versions of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, Ubisoft has revealed. Aveline is the only female protagonist to have featured in the Assassin’s Creed game series so far, and she will make her home …

RedOctane founders and Guitar Hero veterans Charles and Kai Huang have launched a new firm to focus on peripheral-based exercise games for mobile devices. The new ‘interactive fitness’ company – dubbed Blue Goji – hopes to make cardiovascular exercise a social experience, with games on smartphones and tablets that connect …

Mojang has announced the paid-beta for its upcoming strategy card game Scrolls has sold 100k copies. Mojang developer Henrik Pettersson took to Twitter to announce the milestone, which was reached in under two months of availability – with the beta originally launching on July 3rd. The PC and Mac offering …

The second generation Nexus 7 is set to hit shelves later today, and already some retailers are reporting shortages in stock. Android Authority reports the 7-inch tablet has already sold out at Staples – who apparently broke Google’s previously announced retail date of July 30th. Amazon, apparently also launching the …

As we get ever closer to the release date of Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar has released a batch of new screenshots. The new screenshots, which were released for the game’s recent round of previews, show off more of Los Santos and Blaine County as well as some of the …

Gamers can watch live demos of Watch Dogs and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag this week in GAME. GAME’s latest lock-in events will include the Ubisoft duo. Meanwhile, gamers will also be able to hold the new PS4 pad for the first time. The two games will be shown after …

Game design lecturer will also open a two-day game jam at the show

Grocery giant Asda dropped Wii U from its shelves in order to support more successful consoles, including 3DS. The supermarket firm called MCV to say that, contrary to reports, it had never stocked Wii U in its 555 stores, and in fact the console was only available in around 100 …

Games developer and animation studio still plans to release final creation

Online games retailer GamesINC has been rebranded as Bootstrapp, as the company expands and renews its focus on trade-ins. The website will continue to sell new and used games under its new identity, but will now also focus on trade-ins for gadgets such as smartphones, tablets and laptops. We asked …