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The unannounced Yoshi’s Land title for Wii U has popped up once again, this time in a pair of retail listings. Polygon reports the Canadian online catalogues of Best Buy and Future Shop had listed the title (both pages have been pulled) with a pre-order price of $59.99 and an …

Dragon Age III: Inquisition will skip next year and current-gen consoles entirely, if the CV of EA Shanghai’s Tao Gu is to be believed. According to the level designer’s Linkedin profile (via Kotaku), the next fully-fledged Dragon Age title has been pushed to 2014 and onto next generation consoles due …

Online gaming engine introduces numerous features with updated version

Marketers said game was without a 'clear and easy' marketing message

Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II has debuted in second place in the weekly Japanese software chart. Combined sales across PS3 and Xbox 360 reached 220k units, with the PS3 SKU claiming No.2 with sales of 197,350. The Xbox 360 release charted at No.6 with 22,177 unit sales. Ubisoft’s …

It’s the season of giving and December is probably the best month for PlayaStation Plus subscribers since Sony introduced the Instant Game Collection. Getting added to the bouquet of games available for free download via PSN in December are Batman: Arkham City, Vanquish and Limbo. All three games will go …

Successfully Kickstarted VR headset Oculus Rift will miss its proposed pre-Christmas launch. It is now expected that development kits will begin shipping in March 2013, with all orders complete by mid-April. Designing, sourcing, and manufacturing thousands of developer kits is no small feat,” an update on the device’s Kickstarter page …

Online payment company PayPal has begun cutting off accounts connected to Usenet services. Usenet is an older form of the file-sharing sites that are now common on the internet. They are generally restricted to members and can be accessed in a number of ways aside from standard web browsers. They …

VR gaming system delays shipping to games makers, as new prototype headset and console are revealed

A lion tattoo on the ribcage of UFC fighter Carlos Condit has landed THQ in some unwelcome legal hot water. Condit has featured as a fighter in THQ’s UFC series and his digital likeness includes an exact replica of a lion tattoo on his midriff. And now the tattoo artist …