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Upcoming action outing Saints Row IV looks to be the most insane release in the series to date – something that SR5 might not even try to match. The game’s developer Volition has admitted that it has crammed the title with so many bizarre ideas that it might be left …

Candy Crush Saga garners more than 15 million monthly average users

Cross-platform development tool moves to embrace new mobile operating system; users can start developing now

A two-person family development team has seen the launch of its highly anticipated PC title ruined by repeated cyber attacks. Cube World was finally released in alpha last week but very few gamers have been lucky enough to get their hands on it due to repeated store downtime. It transpires, …

Funds raised to be allocate to children and young persons charities

The Entertainment Software Association has confirmed that Activision has re-joined the trade body. The pair originally parted ways back in May 2008, with an Activision rep telling GameSpot at the time: "After careful consideration, Activision has decided not to renew its ESA membership for business reasons and will not be …

Valve’s idealised ‘flat management’ structure is not all it’s cracked up to be, according to one of the developers fired from the studio earlier this year. Hardware hacker and former head of Valve’s hardware division Jeri Ellsworth has characterised secretive Valve’s purportedly utopian structure as masking ‘hidden management’ cliques that …

Namco Bandai has announced a Western release date for RPG sequel Tales of Xillia 2. The PS3-exclusive RPG will be released in Europe and Australia in 2014. Which – obviously – means it arrives after the launch of PS4 at the end of the year. Tales of Xillia 2 is …

Don Mattrick lead an attempted acquisition of Zynga for then employer Microsoft in 2010, it has been claimed. Bloomberg reports that negotiations took place between Mattrick and Zynga founder Mark Pincus. Microsoft had hoped to add Zynga’s then hit titles to its Xbox Live service. Although no concrete reason was …

Long reunited with Richard Garriott for crowdfunded MMO