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Shock news – there are formats on which Angry Birds has not yet been released. Although that is shortly about to change. Activision has announced that Angry Birds Trilogy will be released on both Wii and Wii U on August 16th. The Wii U version offers play on either the …

Gameshastra is a very busy studio these days. Having just released Kite Fight for PS3, the Hyderabad studio has another Move title set for release this week. Dare to Fly tasks you with making an ostrich, a penguin, a rooster and a kiwi take flight by flapping your hands, Move …

Developer Crytek will become a fully-fledged publisher in a matter of weeks. The company behind Crysis will publish its free-to-play game,Warface. Former NCSoft marketing boss Dirk Metzger was recruited last year to put together a publishing team, which is now complete. With Warface there now is a good opportunity to …

Hot on the heels of our confirmation that EA is planning to increase PC game prices in India, the country’s biggest games retailer, Flipkart, has raised prices of forthcoming non-EA games. Ubisoft titles Watch Dogs, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Splinter Cell: Blacklist are all now listed at Rs …

Acclaimed developer Patrice Desilets doesn’t believe the recent furore over the Xbox One’s digital strategy will halt the march toward a disc-less future. "Yeah, games come on disc, and I get it guys you were really pissed off," he said of the Xbox One backlash at the Gamelab conference in …

New customer relations and marketing branch to house up to 15 employees