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Indie developer Frictional Games has revealed its PC horror title Amnesia: The Dark Descent has surpassed 1m copies sold. In a two year report on the developer’s blog, lead Thomas Grip touched on the difficulties of penning an exact number due to bundle sales with Steam and Humble Indie Bundle. …

Nintendo has this morning confirmed a December 8th launch for the Wii U in Japan. More interesting, though, is the price. The console will come in two flavours – a Basic set that will retail for 26,250 (210) and a Premium set for 31,500 (250). Additional Gamepads will cost just …

Wii U '20 times more powerful than the Wii'

Develop delves into the middleware firm's water rendering tech Triton Ocean SDK

Firemonkey’s racing IP Real Racing has once again been used to champion the gaming credentials of the latest iPhone. With many commentators seemingly unimpressed with the lack of innovation shown in the iPhone 5, the use of the familiar Real Racing has arguably done little to excite. That’s not to …

The Wii U has been given a Japanese launch date of December 8th. Two SKUs will be available at launch – a Basic set that will retail for 26,250 (210) and a Premium set for 31,500 (250). The former SKU, which is white, will have 8GB of internal memory and …

Coding teaches kids 'some really valuable lessons'

Asia division of social company bringing two RPGs to US

The iPhone 5 has finally received proper announcement. Let’s go through the relevant details from Apple’s press event today, shall we? First off, the iPhone 5 is officially a thing – Apple’s senior vice president Phil Schiller confirmed as much. It’s launching on the Friday of next week, September 21st …

It was one of Apple’s worst kept secrets, but the iPhone 5 was finally revealed in San Francisco yesterday. While there weren’t too many new standout features, it seems to do almost everything the iPhone 4S did just a little bit better. The device is set for release in 9 …