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First person space combat being brought to life with Unity and Oculus Rift

Dead Island Riptide has taken the top spot in Steam’s top sellers list for the week ending on April 27th. Deep Silver’s just released expand-alone beats out BioShock Infinite and Age of Empires II HD (last week’s winner). Monaco led a pack of indies in the fourth spot, with Klei’s …

Former Ubisoft Singapore design director Jamie Stowe has joined 22 Cans. The Assassin’s Creed III level design director will assume the role of technical designer at Peter Molyneux’s indie studio – specifically focusing on the Kickstarter-funded project, Godus. "Jamie joins 22cans at a very exciting time and takes the role …

Nintendo has announced the Wii U Virtual Console has launched in North America. Launch titles include a handful of NES games for $4.99 (Ice Climber, Balloon Fight, Donkey Kong Jr., Excitebike, Kirby’s Adventure, and Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream), and a couple of SNES games (Super Mario Bros. and F-Zero) for …

Global Gaming Initiative's Elizabeth Sarquis on how the industry can support charitable causes around the world

20 put forward for e-virtuoses Awards; finalists revealed June 5th

Industry veteran Jim Mackonochie has passed away after a battle with liver cancer. Mackonochie was a pivotal figure in the flight simulation industry and despite being heavily in demand from a number of aviation-related industries never strayed far from video games, such was his passion for the genre. He had …

Today’s release of Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut brings with it word of a very well deserved accomplishment for publisher Rising Star Games. The game, a PS3 re-release of Xbox 360’s cult 2010 horror release with additional content, has become Rising Star’s most pre-ordered game ever, MCV can reveal. In …

Curve Studios has announced the new name for its upcoming PlayStation release of Stealth Bastard. Curve Studios’s lead designer Sam Robinson admitted earlier this month that the studio would be looking to change the game’s (admittedly awesome) name for its console debut. We’d like to present our fans with an …

THQ went to the grave with creditors chasing over $200m in unpaid debts. Polygon reports that claims to the bankruptcy court steam from as little as $2.98 from a US tax assessor all the way up to $39m the UK firm THQ Holdings. Other claimants include $213,772 from Microsoft relating …