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Nick Gibson ponders the future of online games subscription models

As if the news wasn’t bad enough for Star Wars fans… Kotaku has word that prior to the game’s cancellation yesterday at the hands of new owners Disney, George Lucas had personally given the in-development Star Wars 1313 a new direction – it was to be re-worked as a tale …

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DRM is one of mostly hotly debated topics in our industry today, but CD Projekt RED is sticking to its guns and maintaining its anti-DRM stance. The Polish developer has announced that, like its predecessors, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will also be DRM-free. We are trying to get rid …

Upcoming RPG epic The Witcher 3 will be free of the shackles of DRM on PC. The news will be applauded by the gaming community, which has become vocally tired of draconian security measures that more often than not result in the official product being more prohibitive to users than …

Sony plans to reveal more about the PlayStation 4 before E3, new reports have suggested. PCMag has heard from what it calls a source familiar with the Sony’s marketing strategy that the console maker is planning to reveal more details about the PS4 in either late April or early May. …

Square Enix’s Thief is not being built using the much-touted Unreal Engine 4. UE4 has been used very much as the poster child of next-gen consoles, but sadly production on the stealth game began before UE4 became available. And with a release not currently scheduled on current-gen consoles, it’s fair …

Crowdfunded project surpasses $3.5 million with less than two days to go

Social components will be the defining difference between current and next-gen consoles, says Yannis Mallat

The new iPhone either has or shortly will enter production, according to new reports. The Wall Street Journal reports that the new model will be similar in size and shape” to the existing iPhone 5, leading to the conclusion that we’re most likely going to see an iPhone 5S unveiling. …