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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 …

Following Nintendo and Microsoft’s lead, Sony has revealed Black Friday US sales data for its hardware. The PS3 sold over 525,000 units during the week of November 18th-24th, with the PS Vita moving 160,000 devices in the same period. The sales numbers for Sony’s systems were of course bolstered by …

Distressed publisher turns to indie pay-what-you-want platform, makes $1m in five hours

Horror series won't be released till 2015 at the earliest

American developer Bethesda has struck a deal with UK distributor Mastertronic that will see the latter bring a number of the former’s PC games to UK retail. The titles included in the agreement are Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 5th Anniversary Edition, Rage: Anarchy Edition, …

New 55-strong Canada-based developer working on original IP