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Renegade Kid dev Jools Watsham questions Steam Greenlight voting and lack of feedback from Valve

Nintendo will release a pink version of its 3DS XL next month. It’s due for release in the UK on May 31st. Nintendo says the release provides newcomers to the Nintendo 3DS XL experience with more options than ever before”. A pink version of the entry-level 3DS is already available. …

Decision makers not even aware of 'multibillion dollar industry'

Watch out Call of Duty – EA believes FIFA 14 could be the best selling game of the year. The upcoming soccer sequel was unveiled to the press at a special event in Guildford last week. It boasts a number of new features, which EA believes will fire the game …

A free copy of Deep Silver’s Metro: Last Light is currently available to those who buy certain Nvidia GTX graphics cards. The game is offered to those who buy a GTX 660 or better, meaning it also includes the likes of the GTX 660Ti, GTX 760, the high-end GTX 680 …

Remake to harness brand new engine

Develop talks to the studios leading Israel's game development sector to prosperity

Iron Man 3 may lack the traditional licensed console game, but it has got an app courtesy of Disney… and Tesco. The Stark Armoury app is described as a new interactive Marvel experience that will have fans and families across the country enjoying a digital treasure hunt through Tesco stores …

EA is taking SimCity offline – deliberately this time. The game will go offline for around two hours from 9pm tonight in order for dozens of fixes to be applied for many of the issues that have been irking players since launch. Here are the changes in full, as posted …

Warner Bros’ new fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us is the new UK No.1. It’s the first Warner title to top the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 since LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes in mid-2012. The game improves upon the performance of its spiritual predecessor Mortal Kombat …