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The Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft is set to receive the content-packed ‘Adventure Update’ sometime later today. The game’s console developer 4J Studios revealed on Twitter that the patch had passed Microsoft certification and its arrival is now imminent. Along with the expected bug fixes and tweaks update 1.8.2 adds …

Valve has announced the approval of nearly two dozen new games for its Steam Greenlight program. The second set of picks contains 21 games and is over double that of the first batch announced last month. Given the number and quality of games submitted, and the ship date of many …

Former exec accused of stealing corporate secrets

Obsidian beats out Double Fine's adventure title for crowdfunding record

Indies are better off building a relationship with Steam and keeping control of their own marketing, says Introversion founder

Develop speaks with Introversion on its latest hit in the making

Global games retail giant GameStop is predicting big things for the next Call of Duty. The firm says that Black Ops II is the most pre-ordered in its history – and that this means the franchise could once again break records at release in November. CoD: Black Ops II is …

Call of Duty Elite membership will come free with Black Ops II. The bespoke social network was once seen as Activision’s early attempt to manoeuvre the Call of Duty IP into the subscription-based market, but those plans have seemingly been abandoned. Instead, Activision will try to generate post-sale revenue for …

Zotac launched its line-up of budget graphics cards based on Nvidia’s GTX 650 Ti graphics processor in Mumbai last week. Alongside the launch of the company’s new line of Zbox mini-PCs, Zotac unveiled three cards based on the latest 650 Ti chipset, effectively completing Nvidia’s gamut of Kepler-based600 seriesofferings. Aside …

Permanent Xbox Live bans are being handed out to Xbox 360 owners who have illegally pirated Halo 4. The game became available online over the weekend, but can only be played by users who have modded their Xbox 360 console to run pirated code. And have then been daft enough …