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Madden NFL 25 has become the latest EA game to skip a release on Wii U. Last year’s release was made available on both Wii and Wii U, although the last Madden to be released on a Nintendo handheld was in 2011 when Madden formed one of the 3DS’ launch …

QA and localisation firm named HTC Connect authorised testing facility

A free Yoda-themed LEGO Star Wars games will be released on mobiles on May 4th. As in, May The Fourth Be With You. Geddit? Called LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles, it takes place amidst the turmoil of the Clone Wars and sees the aged Jedi Master instructing a new …

Social network claims 1.1 billion MAUs in total

What’s inside the cube? WHAT’S INSIDE THE SODDING CUBE? Six months on from the launch of Peter Molyneux’s global gaming experiment Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube?, gamers are finally getting tantalisingly close to discovering the answer. Calculations at developer 22Cans suggest that c-day could likely be on May 10th at …

DICE head of recruitment Fredrik Johnsson explains what the studio has to offer developers

How low will retail go in an effort to shift its Wii U stock? Having slashed 50 off the price of both the Wii U Basic and Premium SKUs back in March, retailer Asda has now cut ANOTHER 50 off the machine’s shelf price. That means consumers can now buy …

The franchise that has defined a generation of gaming is set to raise the bar once again with the all-new Call of Duty: Ghosts.” That’s the opening gambit of Activision’s official announcement of the new Call of Duty. Despite dropping the Modern Warfare subtitle, the game is being developed by …

Tech giant's stock value hits five-year high

40 executives, including CEO, forgo $10 million in "unprecedented" gesture