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Following the success of The Walking Dead last year, and having recently announced Fables adaptation The Wolf Among Us, Telltale Games has now announced its follow-up to 2010’s Poker Night at the Inventory. Poker Night 2 features characters from various popular game franchises, such as Claptrap from Borderlands, Brock Samson …

Sony appears to be planning bundled retail releases for various PSN games, according to an ESRB listing. The listing (via Gamespot) unveils a Best of Playstation Network Vol. 1” compilation on Blu-ray for Playstation 3; with titles including Sound Shapes, Tokyo Jungle, When Vikings Attack, and Fat Princess. Two of …

Vasu Chaturvedi is one of India’s most promising up and coming indie game developers. In 2011, he was part of a team of students from DSK Supinfogame that won the BYOG game jam at NASSCOM GDC. He is one of the creative minds behind Circulets, Hashstash Studios’ frantic upcoming tabletop …

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 …

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