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Zynga is putting pressure on new CEO to boost share prices

Major League Gaming’s latest Pro Circuit event hit new heights in terms of attendance, the organization has revealed. Fans and competitors combined to make up 21,000 attendees at the three-day Spring Championship in Anaheim, California – which the league states sets a new record for the largest crowd in the …

Epic Games producer Chris Wynn is set to exit the company for a position with BioWare to focus on the future of the Mass Effect series. The Gears of War 3 lead producer and Gears of War: Judgment senior producer took to twitter to announce his acceptance of his new …

Zynga's gain is EA's loss, claims analyst

The NPD Group has announced it will start officially tracking worldwide digital sales of video games. Speaking with Games Industry, organization president David McQuillan admitted that the move to cover the digital arm of the market has been a long time coming and explained how NPD plans to pull off …

Update: We’ve got word that distributor E-xpress Interactive has not officially announced an increase in the price of Grand Theft Auto 5. The prices listed on Flipkart are tentative and have been set by the retailer itself. Original story:After PC, it’s now time for console games to receive price hikes …

Kickstarter project is over budget and past due, but studio has a plan to save the game

Ubisoft sent out an email to Uplay users late last night, asking them to change their passwords following a breach of security. Reports suggest that hackers have been able to gain backdoor access to the Uplay store and have been able to download games without purchasing them. These include Far …

Capcom will be a no-show at this year’s Gamescom in Cologne. The Resident Evil publisher usually uses the world’s biggest trade and consumer games show to exhibit its upcoming titles, as well as announce new ones, but has decided to skip the event this year. A Capcom representative told VG247 …

Microsoft’s touch screen entertainment app, Xbox SmartGlass, has now been downloaded over 17 million times since its launch in October 2012. Microsoft principal program manager Rosa Thomas shared the news about the companion app during the presentation at the tech giant’sBuild 2013 conferencein San Francisco. Those downloads occurred across Windows …