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DICE and Visceral working on new original Star Wars games with the Frostbite 3 engine

EA will be going to a galaxy far, far away again more often, following a major publishing agreement with Disney. EA has signed the ‘exclusive’ rights to create Star Wars games on a multi-year deal. It follows the closure of the LucasFilm’s in-house publishing label, LucasArts. Judging by EA’s press …

Rumours that the Xbox 360 successor needs a constant web connection to run are apparently untrue. After months of speculation – and a coincidental scandal for EA and its Sim City web connection drama – a new report claims to have seen a leaked memo from MS to staff. And …

Nominees competing at July 10th awards ceremony named: Are you in the running?

Warner Bros and 5th Cell face legal challenge over Keyboard and Nyan Cat

Jagex's MMO will come to mobile and smart TVs

The iOS/Android version of Minecraft has reached a major milestone, selling 10m units since launching in August 2011. Mojang shared the significant sales figure for Minecraft: Pocket Edition in an official company post –adding that several feature additions are in the works for the mobile version. Some of the new …

Valve has approved a small grouping of games and software via Steam Greenlight, announcing it expects the move to mark the start of a speedier process for the community-voting system. In a post on Steam’s community section, the digital distribution giant revealed its approval prorgram for indies will look to …

Sony has sent out invitations to its Playstation E3 2013 press event, confirming it will join Microsoft in showing off its wares a day ahead of the industry expo in Los Angeles. The conference takes place on June 10th at 6pm Pacific, just hours afterMicrosoft’s eventtakes place at 10am that …

Tomb Raider took the top spot on Steam’s weekly top ten selling products list, stealing it away from Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon – thanks to a major discount promotion. The recently dubbed and currently discounted Star Wars 2013 Collection finished right behind the aforementioned titles, followed by StarDrive. The …