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Mark Kern claims WoW team lowered the MMO difficulty curve too much

Microsoft’s Games with Gold program has kicked off with the first free title being offered to Xbox Gold Live members. The game in question is Defense Grid: The Awakening – a 2009 Xbox Live title that normally retails for 800 Microsoft Points. Two free games will be offered each month, …

New estimates paint a very bleak picture for BlackBerry 10. PocketGamer has done some number crunching following BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins’ admission that just 40 per cent (around 2.7m) of the 6.8m smartphones his company shipped in the last quarter were BB10 devices. For comparison, Samsung shipped an estimated 70.7m …

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Tool will allow iOS and Android app development for free-to-play MMO

Richard Keith, the publisher of Edge, PC Gamer and Xbox 360: The Official Magazine, is leaving Future. It comes ahead of what will be a ‘review of the publishing structure’ at Future’s games division. The news follows a drop in revenue for Future as revealed in its last financial statement. …

There is 'clear and evident market failure' in production of culturally British games

Fresh speculation about the next line of AMD’s Radeon graphics card suggests a September reveal is on the cards. VideoCardz reports that AMD is currently working on the Hawaii silicon architecture that will power two new cards – the Radeon HD 9970 and the HD 9950. Previous reports had first …

Dust 514 maker working with Sony to evolve procedures for free-to-play games

A problem with EA and Maxis title Darkspore has this weekend served a perfect illustrations of the perils faced by consumers with online-only titles. Polygon reports that the game has been pulled from Steam following persistent and unresolved server problems that are preventing many players from accessing the game or …