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Microsoft will have its Xbox successor on the market before Thanksgiving and Christmas 2013. That’s according to a new report on Bloomberg, citing sources close to the matter who have conveniently started to blab just as the Wii U rolls out around the world. (It launched last night in the …

Turtle Rock Studios, GameDev.net chip in to help publisher

RuneScape developer has yet to issue yearly filing due in September

'I haven't really shown the world what else I might be capable of yet', says veteran dev

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed will arrive in India early next week, well after the game’s international release. The good news, however, is that the multi-starring kart racer will be priced at just Rs 1,999 on Xbox 360 and PS3. Distributor E-xpress Interactive has confirmed, however, that the PC …

New deal removes benefits as companies begin to part ways

Well, we’re all a good few hours into playing our Wii U’s now, and sales charts for Q3 this year have come in. The Wii U midnight launches took place in hundreds of JB Hi-Fi, EB Games and K Mart stores across both countries yesterday, but EB in Sydney, Melbourne …

THQ has fallen on hard times lately and the cash-strapped publisher has now put together a Humble Bundle, offering a collection of its top games and leaving it up to the buyer to decide how much they want to pay for it. We’re used to seeing Humble Indie Bundles, which …

Online games portal Kongregate has introduced downloadable free-to-play games to its catalogue. The GameStop property says it will help developers with monetization and promotion, as well as providing visibility for titles. "This is a huge evolution forward for Kongregate, our gamers, and game developers,” said Kongregate CEO Jim Greer. We …

Hideo Kojima doesn’t want his legacy tied only to his creation and development of the Metal Gear franchise. The designer explained to EGM how he’s been misinterpreted in the past, and that he’s always wanted to work on original properties instead of being known as ‘the Metal Gear guy.’ I’m …