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Konami has announced the next Metal Gear Solid game at a Japanese press event to mark the 25th anniversary of the franchise. Called Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, it makes a big departure from future games in the series by being open-world. Cut scenes (of which you can expect many) …

Gearbox has plenty in the present to smile about with Borderlands 2, but that doesn’t mean the company isn’t excited about what it has in the works going forward. We’ve got a few things going on right now that we haven’t talked about but that’ll appear later,” company president Randy …

Australian studio Straight Right has revealed its helping BioWare develop the Wii U version of Mass Effect 3. The company revealed the news on their Facebook page, stating that the team is working in conjunction with BioWare on the port. It was previously rumoured that its sister company Tantalus Media …

New browser streaming service to offer free and paid-for titles from publisher's back catalogue

Licensees can access Windows RT code at Epic's Unreal Developer Network

Sony has revealed its extensive content slate being added the PSN this week… and Counter Strike: Global Offensive is highly conspicuous by its absence. The game was supposed to arrive on both Xbox 360 and PS3 last week. It turned up on Xbox Live, as planned, but failed to materialise …

Cloud gaming has taken a significant step into the present thanks to a new initiative from Japanese publisher Square Enix. Its new portal, Core Online, allows gamers to play some its titles for free in proper HD through their web browser. It has launched with playable versions of Hitman: Blood …

Playing with Modern Warfare 2’s night vision goggles in the MCV basement was the best of times. So please forgive us if we become giddy with excitement with the news that having skipped a Prestige release for Modern Warfare 3, Activision is back at it again with Black Ops II. …

One good thing about post-release DLC is that it gives you a great excuse to revisit some classic titles. And with the release of BioWare’s Leviathan DLC for Mass Effect 3, you’ve got an ideal reason to relive one of the greatest action RPGs ever released. The Mass Effect series …

Extreme sports brand Red Bull is to try its hand at video games publishing… again. The company has announced a co-publishing agreement with Microsoft for Xbox 360 Kinect title ‘Red Bull Crashed Ice Kinect’, which is due for release some time this winter. As long ago as 2007 it was …