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EA has announced a list of titles whose online support will be terminated on January 11th. The most notable game is FIFA 11, for which both online play and Ultimate Team functionality will be shut off. Also facing the chop are NFL 11, NBA Jam and FIFA Manager 11. The …

The rumours are true; Tomb Raider will feature multiplayer, but it is not being worked on by Crystal Dynamics. The multiplayer aspect has been handed over to Eidos Montreal, which developed Deus Ex: Human Revolution and is – last we heard – working on Thief 4. The confirmation was made …

A report being published by the Entertainment Retailers Association will this morning say that digital sales in the UK passed 1bn in 2012. That represents the amount spent on games, music and films in 2012, although games accounted for over half of the total at 552m, climbing 7.7 per cent. …

Mojang’s multi-platform cash cow Minecraft has once again flexed its muscle. The indie game with its own convention moved 453,000 units on December 25th. Creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson took to twitter to share the news; initially claiming the figure was collected on December 24th, and then later correcting the date …

A leaked promo image for new Call of Duty: Black Ops II add-on content has surfaced. An image posted on Reddit reveals the game’s apparent ‘Revolution’ DLC, which is supposed to arrive on January 29th. Five locations are featured: Mirage, Downhill, Hydro, Grind, and Die Rise – with what would …

It has been a brutal year for nearly everyone working in the video games business. Be you a publisher struggling to keep out of the red, a developer facing project cancellations or a retailer trying to sell games in a dramatically contracting market, it’s been one of the toughest. But …

Ubisoft has finished 2012 on a high after claiming a double win in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. Continued price activity on shooter Far Cry 3 sees the critically applauded title claim No.1, knocking Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 off the top for the first …

Eidos life president Ian Livingstone was made a Commander of the British Empire in the New Years Honors list. Livingstone first made a name for himself in the 1970s by launching Games Workshop and White Dwarf. He edited White Dwarf – a dedicated magazine to Warhammer – for almost 75 …

Valve has revealed the top ten sellers for the first of two full weeks of store-wide discounts during Steam’s holiday sale. Several heavy hitters were vying for the top spot, but in the end first-person hack and slash Chivalry: Medieval Warfare beat them all. Skyrim would have likely surpassed the …