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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

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 …