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As it goes on sale in the UK this morning, EA has announced a record-breaking debut for FIFA 13 in North America. The publisher estimates that the Xbox 360 and PS3 SKUs between them sold 353,000 – a 42 per cent year-on-year increase. The game was also released for Wii, …

Nearly 300 GAME stores opened their doors last night for what is likely to be the biggest game launch of 2012 to date. The release of FIFA 13 this week is likely to propel the market to its highest level of the year so far, so retail was naturally keen …

Day Z creator Dean Hall has a real sense of urgency when it comes to getting a standalone version of his popular ArmA II mod into players’ hands. Speaking duing a panel at Eurogamer Expo, Hall revealed that it isn’t a question of wanting to get the game into players …

EA Sports has announced the cancellation of NBA Live 13. The decision marks the second time in the last few years that EA has canned its NBA sim in the eleventh hour. That said, the studio has plans for the franchise next year. "Having continued to look at the game …

Zynga has taken a hit in regards to the publisher’s community numbers thanks to Facebook implementing measures to remove fraudulent ‘Likes’ from its pages. Tech Crunch reports the firm, along with many other companies on the social network, saw drops in fan numbers after Facebook went about weeding out fake, …

New studio looking for developers, artists and programmers for next iteration

Minecraft developer would rather 'the game not run on Windows 8 at all than play along'

The games industry gave five charities supporting disadvantaged kids big donation cheques this evening. UK video games charity GamesAid this evening revealed the winners of its 2012 member vote. Action For Kids, Jigsaw4U, Small Steps, Special Effect and The Willow Foundation were the five charities that got the nod from …

First 1,000 purchases to receive Doom 3: BFG Edition to show off tech's capabilities

UK gaming trade body UKIE has revealed the names of the six people – four of whom are developer – who have been appointed to its board. The development heads are Noirin Carmody (owner and COO of Revolution Software), Miles Jacobson (studio director, Sports Interactive), Alice Taylor (CEO and founder, …