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Sony has kicked off a new sale on PSN featuring price drops on several AAA games; some temporary, others permanent. Headlining the sale is Dishonored, which has nearly halved in price for a limited time from Rs 2,499 to Rs 1,299, with a further 10% off for PlayStation Plus subscribers. …

Industry experts weigh in with advice on how to land a job in game dev

New tool based on open source components including Cocos2d-x and Box2D

More than three years after it was released on Xbox 360 and PS3, Double Fine’s Jack Black-starring ode to metal is coming to PC. The game is currently available for preorder on Steam at a discounted $14.99 (regular price is $19.99). The PC version promises enhanced visuals and improved performance, …

The latest ABC numbers from Future Entertainment show that the publishing company now reaches a higher global audience than ever before. As a whole the company’s publications now reach 20.2m people, a 29 per cent year-on-year increase. The figure includes duplicates, however, gathering together ABCs, unique users, digital subscribers, social …

Publisher in search for indie titles to support, fund and promote

Take-Two has announced that it has acquired the video game license for WWE after previous publisher THQ went out of business. Future games are likely to be published by Take-Two’s 2K division. The 2K Sports publishing label is well renowned for its quality sports games such as the NBA 2K …

There are plenty of industry execs who remain fully committed to retail. Clearly Epic Games founder Tim Sweeny is not one of them. In fact, he believes the entire chain – games on discs, discs in shops, ads on TV, people on the High Street – is very much destined …

Naughty Dog’s new survival action game The Last of Us has been delayed slightly, and will now release on 14th June. Posting on the PlayStation Blog, studio creative director Neil Druckmann said, As we entered the final phase of development for The Last of Us, we came to realise just …

Deadly Premonition creator Hidetaka Suehiro, better known as Swery 65, admits the cult classic has never been financially successful. "So far there’s no economic success from this game," said Suehiro in an interview with Polygon. "What we develop for the next title depends on what kind of chance we get. …