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Punters who buy a Wii U this weekend face a sizable day one patch if they want full functionality – a fact Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has apologised for. "Personally I think that users should be able to use all the functions of a console video game machine as soon …

Browser gaming site to help developers promote and monetise free-to-play games

Online retailer continues push into mobile sector

Online only Indie Speed Run development contest has grand prize of $2,500

Indie dev expected failure and shipped cult hit before testing

Finnish start-up to launch first title in the near future

PS3 Skyrim owners have been left behind, but not forgotten according to Bethesda. The company’s PR and marketing head Pete Hines took to Twitter in response to the questions regarding the lack of any of the title’s DLC for Sony’s console. "We continue to work on it. And content will …

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