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A host of former LucasArts game projects have been named in a book chronicling the history of LucasArts. Although published in 2008, a list of 20 potential game logos available in Chronicle Books’ Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts was thrust online recently by AllGamesBeta. You can see all the …

Minecraft creator gives nod to plan to make every console a dev-kit

The US Official Microsoft Store has revealed the pre-order prices for the first Xbox One accessories. The Xbox One controller is priced at $59.99. That’s around 40 in real money, although of course the price is unlikely to translate in this way – expect perhaps a 50 price tag in …

Puzzle & Dragons developer sees nearly 1,000 per cent growth in first half of the year

The Crew will offer the widest variety of car types ever seen in a driving game, the game’s community developer Soufyane Brahimi has said. While Ubisoft has yet to reveal a list of cars that will make it into the game, Brahimi says that there’s something there for every taste. …

Rival Samsung sold about a third of all smartphones in Q2 2013

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 …