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Social networking feeds tease new entry in game series

Fantasy RPG sequel being made at Edmonton and Montreal studios

EA has announced a third game in its 8m plus selling RPG series Dragon Age. Called Dragon Age 3: Inquisition, the game is powered by EA’s Frostbite 2 engine and has been in production since 2010. "The Dragon Age team has been working on Dragon Age 3: Inquisition for almost …

There is a lot of unnecessary conflict within the games industry. And I’m not talking EA vs Activision or HMV vs Blockbuster. But rather areas that would be better off if they just worked together. Retail and digital. Publishers and developers. GAME and Gamestation. It’s not that these two retail …

New event to take place next November alongside App Developers Conference for non-gaming firms

The people of Manchester are mad for piracy, it would seem. New research from monitoring service Musicmetric – which monitors global BitTorrent activity – found that there was more illegal downloads per person in the city than anywhere else in the UK, the BBC reports. Nottingham came second and Southampton …

Latest iteration of hugely popular smartphone doubles initial 4S sales in 24 hours

To run any business or team properly, you have to have enormous self-belief that your strategy and vision is the right one. Square Enix president and CEO Yoichi Wada doesn’t just have self-belief, he has one of the most surprising views on the future of the games market. The man …

Apple has stated that it received over two million pre-orders for the iPhone 5 in its first 24 hours of availability. That’s double the one million pre-orders won by the iPhone 4S in its first 24 hours and over triple the 600,000 day one iPhone 4 pre-orders. The handset is …

300 students descend on 48-hour Windows 8 development contest