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Profits up £17 million as number of game downloads surpasses 1.7 billion

We had reported a few days ago that the demo for Injustice: Gods Among Us would be part of today’s PSN Store update, but the demo seems to have been left off the Indian store. Browsing through the store, the only Injustice content to be found was a PS3 theme. …

Work on Doom 4 was completely rebooted by developer Id Software at the end of 2011. That’s according to Kotaku, which describes the game as being in trouble” as it approaches its fifth year in development. An earlier version of Doom 4 did not exhibit the quality and excitement that …

Square Enix has released the first video of Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director’s Cut on the Wii U. The publisher describes it as the ultimate edition of the popular sci-fi action RPG. It comes replete with a host of changes – not least of which are the alterations made to …

Could business opportunities in the gambling sector pay off? Develop investigates

Tim Heaton provides a fascinating insight into Segaâ??s bid for Relic Entertainment

The angry whining of teens on the internet should not be mistaken for actual, real-world opinion. That much is certainly true. Whether it can be applied to arguments surrounding free-to-play gaming is probably slightly more debatable. There’s no confusion as to which side of the fence EA sits on, however. …

The creative director of Just Cause 3 developer Avalanche has predicted fewer triple-A game releases in the future. That’s not to say that triple-A is going away, of course – despite the booming development costs and seemingly shrinking market. "I don’t think big-budget games are going away,” Stefan Ljungqvist told …

Yosuke Matsuda has promised to review all aspects of Square Enix’s business. The exec will in June replace outgoing former boss Yoichi Wada and has obviously decided that drastic action is needed following the prediction of a 13bn loss for the current financial year. After having succeeded the important role …

Publisher acknowledges videos 'did not accurately reflect the content of the game'