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Microsoft has announced its Halo franchise has hit 50m lifetime sales. The series had sold 46m units heading into the launch of Halo 4, meaning the latest installment has moved roughly 4m copies so far. The first Bungie-less game in the saga made $220m on launch day. Additionally, 343 Industries’ …

Valve to snap up indie talent for its digital sales platform

The Independent Games Festival and Valve have announced an agreement that will provide all of this year’s finalists with a Steam distribution offer. The festival’s official site reveals Main competition finalists will have an opportunity to accept a distribution agreement with the PC digital games giant. The competition includes several …

Ubisoft appears to be at work on a next-gen effort that aims to offer one of the best gameplay experiences ever conceived.” OXMhas unearthed Ubisoft Massive designer Marc Cartwright’s LinkedIn profile, which makes mention of a AAA next generation online RPG. Further evidence in the form of job listings have …

Producer, game developer, educator and father of three passes away

Austin Wintory's epic composition first to be nominated for prestigious "best score" award

First title to be console-quality FPS for mobile devices

Eighty per cent of our revenues are from products that didn’t exist 60 days ago.” Think about that for a moment. It’s quite remarkable, really. Apple has in that time released a new iPhone, two new iPods, a new iPad and a new MacBook Pro. I mean, no company would …

Owners of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on PS3 shouldn’t give up hope on the DLC. While expansions Dawnguard and Hearthfire are already out on Xbox 360 and PC (with the latter releasing once Microsoft’s Xbox exclusivity window passed), the PS3 versions has yet to receive the add-ons. The most …

Community members get access to much anticipated PC shooter