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Twelve titles dropped by social gaming giant to date as part of cost-cutting measures

Casual games firm PlayJam has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new console that plugs directly into a TV’s HDMI slot. The new device, aptly titled GameStick, will run Android games and come with a Bluetooth controller. The stick-shaped console then slots into the controller for easier portability. While …

Sony has stopped manufacturing the amazingly successful PS2 in Japan. The games console first went on sale in March 2000 in Japan and has since sold then more than 150 million units worldwide, and still holds the record for the best-selling home console of all time. Approximately 11,000 games are …

Wargaming.net continues global expansion after completing successful test period with more than 60,000 users

Console giant ceases manufacturing of hardware in home nation only

Microsoft veteran and localisation specialist takes reigns from Dustin Clingman

The ERA has said that the UK video games market declined 17.4 per cent to 1.598bn in 2012. Those numbers include both physical and digital sales. By contrast, music was down just 5.5 per cent and video 10 per cent. The overall entertainment market decline was 12 per cent, with …

Japanese and South Korean players get free access to fantasy MMO

Activision has released the first gameplay footage of its own take on The Walking Dead. Developed by Terminal Reality (Star Wars Kinect, Def Jam Rapstar, Ghostbusters, Bloodrayne), the game offers a different take on the IP that has already enjoyed video game success at the hands of Telltale and its …

Details of the first DLC pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 – titled Revolution – has been leaked online. Promotional images for the upcoming DLC have made their way to CharlieIntel.com, and reveal that the pack features five new maps. The maps are titled Hydro, Grind, Downhill, Mirage, …