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Next-gen consoles will most likely not be backwards compatible, EA’s CFO Blake Jorgensen has suggested. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, as reported by Gamasutra, Jorgensen said that he expects EA to do good business on current-gen consoles for financial year 2014 even if …

Gearbox did not hand over the development of Aliens: Colonial Marines’ single player mode to TimeGate, Sega has insisted. The claims arrived yesterday amidst the twitter and forum storm that followed the lifting of the review embargo for the game – that itself revealed what can best be described as …

Publisher EA has admitted that it would in some ways like to see an end to pre-owned games, but has also admitted that the market could suffer were they to vanish. That’s according to chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen, who Gamasutra reports told an audience at the Goldman Sachs Technology …

US games retail giant GameStop intends to acquire 40 former GAME outlets in France. It also plans to open an additional 70 stores in 2013, although it will also be trimming its existing portfolio by 250 outlets, Polygon reports. 200 of these will come from the US market and the …

What's good for retail helps publishers argues Blake Jorgensen

GameStop clearly doesn’t like the thought of next gen consoles that won’t play used games, but the retailer also believes players aren’t keen on the idea either. VG247 reports the company’s CFO Rob Lloyd spoke at Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, where he shared his thoughts on the growing …

'Kickstarter projects have to be special, not just somebody's next game'

Mojang has brought Minecraft to a new platform, announcing the game’s arrival for Raspberry Pi computers. Minecraft: Pi Edition can be picked up now by device owners as a free download straight from the developer. The launch build is far from feature complete, but content updates are expected to arrive …

Origin is offering up to 70% off on a range of games from EA and third parties as part of its ‘I Love Games’ sale. Up for grabs at 70% discount are games such as Dead Space 2, Crysis 2 Maximum Edition and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. The majority …

Activision has confirmed the first DLC map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops II will become available for PC and PS3 at the end of this month. ‘Revolution’ brings four multiplayer maps, a new zombies-themed mode and map, and a weapon. The add-on originally launched late last month as …