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Minecraft was the best selling Xbox Live Arcade game in the UK last week. Again. The game has been at the top of UK XBLA charts for 19 of the 21 weeks this year. It’s pretty much dominated the XBLA charts for 12 months. Elsewhere, Far Cry: Blood Dragon remains …

Long-running indie Wireworld Game Studio, Caf and Bar has found itself new owners. After 14 years, owners Ron ‘Mac’ McKenzie and his wife Lyn had to sell the Bath store due to illness – and the couple were amazed by the response. We had a phenomenal amount of interest,” said …

The development team behind Call of Duty Ghosts has more staff than ever, despite losing almost 50 members of staff after a 2010 scandal. The team that created the Call of Duty and Modern Warfare brands almost collapsed following a dispute with its parent company Activision. Infinity Ward’s founders were …

Engine for relativity game has been released on GitHub

Avalanche Studios founder 'understands' fan concerns, but says his team is impressed with the hardware

Governor still plans on repaying lenders but is looking into effects of cancelling debt

Professor Layton and Ni No Kuni developer Level-5 is currently developing three role-playing games for mobile platforms in Japan. Polygon passes on a Famitsu report stating the studio will release all three titles before the end of 2013. The announcement comes following Level-5’s registering of a series of trademarks applying …

Ubisoft has announced its games line-up for E3 2013. The publisher revealed its booth will provide attendees a chance to check out a handful of upcoming titles, including Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Watch Dogs, Rayman Legends, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Ubisoft is also …

Nintendo has released the list of Best Buy stores set to demo its Wii U and 3DS E3 line-up next month. The demo stations will be open for business across over 100 US shops on Wednesday, June 12th from 4-8 pm, and again on Saturday, June 15th from 1-5 pm …

The winners of the Thumbstar Games Journalism Prize were named this evening. Eurogamer’s Christian Donlan was the overall winner, for his piece, Night and the City, which was also named best feature. You can read the piece, inspired by Rockstar Games’ LA Noire, here. Donlan was selected by a panel …