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Halo 4, The Darkman 2, Bowling Wizards, and Shield Attack picked up honours at the 2013 FICCI BAF Awards. In the mobile games category, addictive bowling puzzler Bowling Wizards from Chennai-based Nextwave Multimedia came away with top honours, while The Darkman 2’s addictive shooting-apples-off-heads gameplay won it and developer 7Seas …

Battlefield 4 arrives on 29th October, a post on Xbox.com has inadvertently revealed. The date was listed in an Xbox.com blog post and then quickly removed, but it was up just long enough for a few eagle-eyed observers to pick up. All Games Beta has published a screenshot of the …

Valve has revealed the latest weekly top selling products on Steam, with Bioshock Infinite out in front again for its launch week. Infinite itself, and its Season Pass DLC sandwiched the consistently high-selling Arma 3 Alpha for the top three spots on this week’s chart. The GTA Complete Pack and …

ThePlayStation 4will be introduced globally in 2013, retailer GameStop’s executive vice president of strategy business and brand development Michael Hogan has said. The statement calms fears that the console will arrive in Europe in 2014. We know that Sony will introduce the PlayStation 4 globally in 2013, but we are …

The PlayStation 4 will be introduced globally in 2013, retailer Gamestop’s executive vice president of strategy business and brand development Michael Hogan has said, allaying fears that the console would arrive in India, along with Europe, in next year. We know that Sony will introduce the PlayStation 4 globally in …

Stelulu Technologies turned quite a few heads at PAX East last week with its innovative new PC game controller, the Stinky Footboard. The device is a bit like an oversized d-pad that you plug into your PC’s USB port and control with your feet. It’s a PC gaming peripheral that …

All the major announcements, interviews and insights from GDC 2013 right here

'We have Unreal Engine 3 for the Wii U,' says Mark Rein

Computing giant reveals PixelSync and InstantAccess tech for fourth generation processors

Developer thought only small percentage of players would use service