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Quick – there’s just one table left for the first Xbox 360 MCV Quiz of 2013. Costing just 349, a table seats up to five contestants and includes free food and plenty of drink, a great networking opportunity, the chance to win some fantastic prizes and a really fun night. …

Havok is attempting to shift the balance of power with its game engine for mobile and indie devs

Zapak Mobile Games has released a new arcade free-to-play game for Android, titled Brainbots vs Zombies. Despite its post-apocalyptic theme, this a game primarily targeted at kids with casual arcade gameplay The premise involves a herd of zombies plotting its attack on the last settlement of brains. Players must protect …

Deep Silver’s Dead Island: Riptide has topped the UKIE GfK Chart-Track UK All Formats Top 40 for the second week in a row. All in all it’s a largely uneventful week in the listings with the highest new entry at 26th – Sony’s Vita title Soul Sacrifice. There are re-entries …

SimCity studio Maxis has revealed that The Sims 4 is in the works. EA’s press release waits until only the second sentence to confirm that The Sims 4 will be a SINGLE PLAYER and OFFLINE game. A bit eager, you may argue, but with Maxis’ name currently proving pretty toxic …

US subsidiary of Marvelous AQL acquires Atlus Online

A month after closing LucasArts, Disney has signed a multi-year publishing deal with EA, through which the latter will create Star Wars games for the core gaming audience (read: console and PC). EA will rope in the talents of in-house studios DICE (Battlefield), Bioware (Mass Effect), and Visceral Games (Dead …

Over 250m Windows Store apps downloaded in first six months

Shuhei Yoshida says devs can control next-gen PlatStation's social features

GameStop has announced it will no longer take trade-ins for PS2 hardware, accessories and games after this month. In a statement to Engadget, GameStop’s corporate office confirmed rumours regarding the discontinuation of Sony’s console – adding that the systems, along with its games and accessories, will still be sold at …