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Stuart Black’s rocky recent career has taken another twist with news of his departure from City Interactive. Black, who made (and shared) his name with gritty Criterion shooter Black, left Codemasters while working on the critically slammed shooter Bodycount. His new position at City Interactive was announced in late 2010, …

T5 Labs is attempting to sue cloud gaming firm Gaikai in the Delware courts. It alleges that the Sony-owned company has committed and continues to commit acts of infringement” in the region. It is demanding a jury trial. The complaint revolves around US Patent 8,203,568 called Sharing a Graphical Processing …

Sony has unveiled a redesign for the PlayStation Store element of PSN. The whole storefront has been given an image-led overhaul as well as tweaks to the UI used to browse different sections such as games and movies. Game IP and characters will be used to spruce up the look …

US studio working on Facebook multiplayer racing game

Distributor E-xpress Interactive has launched its initial line-up of third-party PS3 Essentials at Rs 999. The Rs 999 price line is lower than that of Sony’s first-party line-up, which retails for Rs 1,199. So far, E-xpress’ PS3 Essentials line-up comprises of select Ubisoft titles, but the company does intend to …

A new Rockstar collection seems bound for retail. As reported by CVG, a SKU called Rockstar Games Collection Episode 1 has appeared on at least two retailer’s websites. The boxart points to the inclusion of four titles – Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, Red Dead Redemption, LA Noire …

The NASSCOM Gaming Forum is currently accepting submissions from gaming companies all over India for the official Indian Game Studio Directory. If you your company is involved in the game development business, you can fill out the form here to get it added to the list. While you can submit …

Europe to be hit hardest by Microsoftâ??s veto on mature games

Capcom has side-stepped any further furore about the discovery of DLC on the game disc for Resident Evil 6. A title update due out soon” will unlock the No Hope difficulty level, reference to which was discovered on the physical copy of the game earlier this week. It will also …

The PS3 version of resident Evil 6 has debuted at the top of the Japanese charts. The SKU sold an impressive 635k units in its first week, eclipsing everything else in the listings. The Xbox 360 version claimed fifth place with unit sales of 42k. There was also a strong …