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The ‘spiritual successor’ to cult hit Syndicate is in rude health. Just early last week there were fears that the game could miss its 350,000 Kickstarter target. It then went on to reach the goal just three days later. Yesterday the game’s Kickstarter came to a close at an impressive …

New start-up aims to combine mobile gaming with cardio workouts

Game4u has announced its preorder promotion for Grand Theft Auto V, offering preorder bonuses as well as a chance to win a PlayStation 4. All preorder customers at Game4u will receive the Atomic Blimp DLC as well as a double-sided door poster (preview here). In addition, all preorders will be …

Puzzle & Dragons creator GungHo saw operating profit climb 4,331.2 per cent per cent year-on-year for the six months ending June 2013. Serkantoto.com reports that operating profit totalled $460m for the period. Sales climbed 945.5 per cent to $763 with net income growing 2,609.2 per cent to $287m. For the …

Phil Scott discusses developing the shooter to NVIDIA Shield

A 300GB successor to the Blu-ray standard has been revealed by Sony and Panasonic. The BBC reports that the format is intended to be in place by 2015 and is being designed with an eye on the new 4K Ultra High Resolution standard. Movies made to this spec will likely …

John Osvald, Nathan Etter and Jesse Janosov head for the exit door

Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson has endorsed Microsoft’s recently announced plan to make every Xbox One work as a dev kit. These plans were revealed by Microsoft earlier this month as part of its dramatic indie U-turn. "I think it’s a wonderful idea to have the actual box be the …

Deep Silver’s Saints Row IV has once again been blocked from release in Australia. A three-member panel of the Classification Review Board has unanimously determined that the computer game Saints Row IV is classified Refused Classification,” a new statement from the Australian Classification Board confirmed. In the Review Board’s opinion, …

Tiga's Richard Wilson on how promoting game clusters can provide a boost to promising start-ups