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Square Enix CEO and president Mike Fischer has left Square Enix of America for a job with Amazon. Polygon reports Fischer quit the company earlier this month, and is now the vice president of digital music and video for Amazon in Japan. Fischer worked at Namco, Sega and Microsoft before …

Sony has confirmed a US release for the PS Vita port of Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, adding that the game will arrive in June packed with enhanced features. The US Playstation blog announced the details earlier today, adding that the game will hit on June 18th. Disney …

Activision’s Eric Hirshberg isn’t worried about negative reactions over the Xbox One reveal’s lack of focus on gaming, stating that the console is a games machine first and foremost.” The firm’s head of publishing spoke to VentureBeat about the backlash from core gamers and industry press following the Xbox One …

The Need for Speed franchise is sticking with its successful open-world, cops-vs-racers formula with Need for Speed: Rivals. Rivals is an action-racer being developed by EA’s new studio Ghost Games, which is comprised of talent from Bizzare and Blackrock, as well as the lead designer of Far Cry 3. Criterion …

FIFA 14 will arrive on 27th September in Europe, and therefore India, EA has announced. That date, of course, applies only to the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game. The game is also headed to the Xbox One and PS4, where it will be powered by the …

Yes, that’s right. A headline with ‘Xbox One’ ‘positive’ and ‘pre-owned’ all at once. Am I crazy? You may well conclude after reading this that I am. And certainly, you’ll have little cause to expect much sense from the second-hand game storm surrounding Microsoft’s ambitious new Xbox One console. So …

Racer coming to PS4 and Xbox One later this year

Rockstar Games today revealed two special editions for Grand Theft Auto 5, both of which will be available in India. The standard edition will only contain the game and is (tentatively) priced at Rs 2,799, but here’s what will be available in the other two editions: Special Edition Retail copy …

Former Trion Worlds CCO vents concerns over rising dev costs

Three names from the PR business have joined forces to launch a new marketing services agency. Called Plan of Attack, the business is the creation of Chris Clarke, Tricia Gray and Audra McIver and is based in three cities – London, Amsterdam and San Francisco. It already has a healthy …