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Australian Interactive Games Fund to help give home-grown developers an edge

Modern Warfare 4 will be Call of Duty’s next offering, according to alleged voiceover leaks from the game. Siliconera has word from anonymous sources that voice acting work is already underway in Los Angeles for a Call of Duty title that’s said to carry on the Modern Warfare arc. Given …

PS3 users have been enjoying the many benefits of PlayStation Plus for a while, but starting 21st November, Sony will welcome PlayStation Vita users into the fold. The subscription-based service gives users automatic game and firmware updates, cloud game saves, discounts on PlayStation Store purchases, full game trials, beta access, …

The fifth and final chapter of Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season One will release next week for consoles, PC, and iOS. ‘Episode Five – No Time Left’ will arrive first on Tuesday, November 20th on the North American Playstation Network, and November 21st on the European Playstation Network, Xbox Live, …

GameStop has announced it sold over 1m copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops II yesterday. President Tony Bartel told Business Week that the figure is on pace to set the retail chain’s largest launch of all time. ‘Black Ops II’ is shaping up to be our biggest game launch …

Minecraft fans now have the chance to have their most impressive digital creations recreated in the real-world. Owned by former Microsoft exec Ed Fries, FigurePrints specialises in making models based on in-game creations. It already offers a World of Warcraft and Xbox Live avatar service (although the latter is being …

Warner has confirmed that an error has led to a small number” of Xbox 360 copies of LEGO Lord of the Rings being labelled as demos. Reports spread around the internet this morning as consumers claimed that had found a demo and not the full game in the box. Fortunately …

New character animations, DirectX 11 support and more in latest game engine release

A request from German company Ravensburger could lead to the renaming of dozens of apps on the Apple App Store. The company claims to hold the trademark for the word in a number of European countries, and having pressed Apple on the issue the iPhone platform holder has sent out …