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The Lost Boys and 24 star Kiefer Sutherland is to be the new voice of Metal Gear Solid star Snake. He replaces the outgoing David Hayter who has not, despite calls from fans, been recast in the role. The events of Metal Gear Solid 5 will take place in 1984, …

The team behind NCsoft’s new MMO Wildstar says it will win back gamers who have abandoned World of Warcraft. Blizzard’s market-leading MMO lost 1.3m subscribers between February and April this year, and many other titles in the sector have been forced to adopt a free-to-play model to survive. But Carbine …

The industry could be on the verge of an unprecedented standoff between retailers and platform holders. That’s the prediction of Baird Equity Research’s Colin Sebastian, who reckons that E3 could be mostly bad news for platform holders. The announcements were mixed for GameStop, alleviating some concerns over used game restrictions, …

Spicy Horse Games's Hell Invaders headed to mobile

Make no mistake about it – what you saw last night was a retreat from Microsoft. As if the weeks of deafening silence and increasingly confusing clarifications” weren’t confirmation enough, this line buried at the bottom of the platform holder’s statements speaks volumes. Loaning or renting games won’t be available …

Double Fine's new strategy title may be dynastic in nature, but not exclusively hetero

Champions Online developer Cryptic Studios and publisher Perfect World Entertainment have created Cryptic North to assist with the companies’ library of MMOs. The new Seattle-based studio will assist Cryptic in evolving its free-to-play superhero MMO, as well as provide support for other MMO titles like Star Trek Online and Neverwinter. …

Company moves to soothe 'monitoring device' worries

The NPD Group claims the total amount spent among US game consumers during the first three months of 2013 is on par with the same period in 2012 – and it’s all thanks to the digital market. Game Informer passes on word that the NPD found a total spend of …

It appears Telltale Games has more content up its sleeve for The Walking Dead prior to the award-winning adventure game’s highly-anticipated second season. IGN reports that an update for the game on Steam’s database lists ‘Walking Dead 400 Days DLC’ beneath both PC and Mac classifications. The content was mentioned …