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Lifetime sales of indie gaming's blockbuster pass 22 million

The multilayered pairing together of the Playstation 4 and PS Vita presents a significant opportunity for Sony’s handheld, according to SCEA senior vice president Guy Longworth. Speaking with Games Industry, Longworth spoke on how the one hurdle for the Vita has become getting in the door with the device – …

DICE’s first-person action platformer Mirror’s Edge has sold 2.5m copies to date, according to EA’s Patrick Soderlund. Soderland revealed the figure to CVG during a discussion on how the game’s upcoming reboot is only possible with the advancement into next-gen hardware. I’ll be honest with you: we’ve been looking at …

Up to 50 companies from local region set to attend exhibition

Sony hasn’t put all its cards on the table just yet, and has hinted at revealing more PS4 games at Gamescom in August. While several games were revealed at the console’s February reveal event, The Order 1886 was the only new first-partytitle to be revealed at E3. It now appears …

We speak to the QA and localisation company ahead of this year's ceremony

Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 4 will launch in India this year alongside Europe. PlayStation India country manager told IVG that the console would arrive in India at most a month after European release, but would still make it here in this calendar year, perhaps indicating the heavily rumoured …

Nearly 75 studios sign up to scheme aimed at increasing awareness of UK game development

There is an assortment of emerging markets out there – and Bethesda is interested in hardly any of them. We don’t have Facebook stuff. We don’t have mobile stuff. We feel like we really know who we are and we know what we’re good at,” Bethesda VP of PR and …

Growing publisher Nordic Games has moved to acquire yet more IP. Following the news that many of Atari’s owned IP were put up for sale last month, Nordic Games has moved to capture two of its licenses – Desperados and Silver. The former is a stealth-based RTS franchise set in …