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No decision has yet been made on whether or not the Wii U version of Call of Duty: Black Ops II will offer the new Season Pass. Activision announced yesterday that it was scrapping subscription charges for its CoD-based social network Call of Duty: Elite. Instead it will now offer …

Tiny Monsters dev offers 50 per cent revenue cut for cross-promotional integration

Bioshock Infinite’s development team has taken another hit with the loss of two more key members. Superannuation reports the game’s AI lead, Don Norbury, and combat design director Clint Bundrick have moved on to jobs with Microsoft. According to their respective Linkedin profiles, Norbury’s new role at Microsoft is senior …

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 …