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Credit card payments usurp virtual currency as default transaction method

The Wii U has lost one of its most promising launch titles. Ubisoft has confirmed that Rayman Legends will now miss its previous November 30th release date and instead arrive in the New Year. Rayman Legends will launch worldwide in the first quarter of 2013,” a Ubisoft spokesperson told MCV. …

Eric Marlow has joined mobile games developer Jump Games as vice president of its global studios, parent company Reliance Entertainment Digital announced today. The announcement comes days after Reliance’s Manish Agarwal revealed to MCV that the company was planning to set up its first studio outside India in either Singapore …

FIFA 13 witnessed a historic launch at Game4u’s midnight launch events its Mumbai and Gurgaon stores. We tied up with Game4u to give its online preordered customers the opportunity to win a free copy of the game. After a couple of weeks of entries, we’ve picked one winner via lucky …

Having recovered from their Dishonored love-in early this morning, critics are currently heaping praise on another of today’s releases – 2K Games’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Firaxis have proved, along with the similarly excellent Civlization Revolution, that games like this can work on consoles as well as PC,” CVG said in …

Activision has confirmed the removal of one of Modern Warfare 2’s multiplayer maps. The move was taken after an unspecified number of Muslim gamers complained about the discovery of a picture frame in one of the level’s bathrooms that has decorative Islamic script written around its edge. It is against …

North America-based studios Enders Fund, Fathom Interactive, Fifth Column and FreezeTag to publish titles on mobile platform

A recent change to Windows 8 suggests that Microsoft may be preparing to phase out its Points payment system. The Verge reports that Microsoft Points are no longer the default payment system in Windows 8, with real money payments replacing them. Up until this point the Windows 8 beta has …

Total transaction value worth $3.4 billion so far this year; Games investment down significantly

The standalone version of popular zombie mod DayZ will not be coming to retail, it seems. The game’s creator, Dean Hall, is currently working with Arma II developer Bohemia Interactive on a standalone version of the Arma II mod that has taken the indie PC games scene by storm. But …