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It’s the season of flooded streets and water-born diseases, and it’s just the excuse retailers needed to offer huge discounts on games. Both Flipkart and Game4u have kicked off their monsoon sales, offering discounts of up to 75%. On Flipkart.com, the sale extends to over 500 console titles, including Skyrim’s …

Microsoft and Sony will implement slow and subtle move to online on next-gen hardware

Hurry! There’s only two weeks left to book your place in this year’s Sourcebook. Sourcebook is the essential guide to agencies and service companies working in video games, technology and entertainment. And you only have until July 5th to secure your space in the 2013 edition, giving you the chance …

Hopes that Wii U might increase its competitive position via a price cut in the run-up to Christmas have seemingly been dashed. That’s because Nintendo has already priced the Wii U as competitively as is financially possible, CEO Satoru Iwata told CNBC, as spotted by GamesRadar. From the very beginning …

A long-awaited driver update that promises to fix one of the biggest issues dogging AMD graphics card will be released on July 31st. AMD confirmed as much on Twitter last night. The driver upgrade will apparently fix problems that were identified earlier this year with users running two AMD Radeon …

Balloon 27 to act as developer and publisher for smartphone and tablet

A third graphics card in the Nvidia GTX 700 range will be released later this month. An announcement is apparently scheduled for June 25th, VideoCardz.com reports. Having recently unveiled both the GTX 780 and GTX 770, the new GTX 760 will be pitched as a replacement for the current GTX …

Namco Bandai is bringing the Dragon Ball Z series to the Vita with upcoming team melee title Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z. The game will be available on the PS3, 360 and Vita, making it the first game in the series to grace the handheld. Battle of Z is …

Remode CEO Ella Romanos on how to take your game studio to the next level

Microsoft’s new console will get a starring role in GAME’s new Xbox store. The branded Shoreditch shop will promote and sell a variety of Xbox products and services. And it will play a significant role in the launch of Xbox One. The store is here to showcase the Xbox experience,” …