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Steam Box could get a little brother

Orgainzers of Child’s Play have revealed over $5m was raised during 2012 for the games industry charity. The figure marks the biggest year yet for the organization, topping 2011’s then-record-setting $3.5m by a wide margin. "We are overwhelmed, honored, grateful, and incredibly proud to be a part of such an …

En Masse and Bluehole Studio have announced their subscription-based MMO Tera will be jumping on the free-to-play train. The switch is expected to be flipped sometime in February, less than a year after the game’s launch. A new item store with real money transactions will arrive alongside the Tera: Rising …

Community members of Southington, the Connecticut town that made news last week when it revealed the blueprints for a program to collect and destroy violent video games, have announced they no longer plan to proceed with that portion of their mission. We succeeded in our program," spokesman Dick Fortunato told …

Low-end device 'expected for late 2013 release'

Indie developer Mike Bithell responds to a Develop story on the number of UK IGF nominations and why it doesn't matter where indies come from, live, or have their laptops plugged in

Zumba Fitness publisher Majesco has reportedly laid off a significant number of staff at its European HQ in Brompton. Games Industry claims to have first hand reports that the job losses could be fairly wide ranging”. It is also understood that Majesco’s Boston studio has also been closed, although the …

'Massive technical and game design endeavour' to bring together game universes

The iPad Mini was once a product of conjecture, though soon became very real, with Apple launching the 7.9-inch tablet to appease consumers on a lower budget while competing with the likes of Amazon’s Kindle Fire line. Apple is now thought to be working on a low end iPhone, which …

Microsoft has sold in excess of 60m Windows 8 licenses in the ten weeks wince the operating system was launched. 40m licenses were shifted in the first month. That puts the pace of sales roughly in line with those of its predecessor Windows 7. This [number] represents the cumulative sales …