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Temple Run has surpassed 100m downloads on iOS and Android just one year following its debut on the App Store. The free-to-play endless action mobile title has racked up 68m and 32m downloads on iOS and Android respectively. To celebrate, the developer has released all of its previous games for …

EA has officially announced new add-ons for Mass Effect 3. First up, after several unofficial reveals, the Leviathan DLC was finally confirmed by the company during its Summer Showcase. The new content will focus on Shepard hunting down a mysterious being said to be powerful enough to destroy a Reaper. …

With everyone in the mood to increase prices, World Wide CD Roms has announced a drop in prices for several Activision games on Xbox 360 and PS3, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Modern Warfare 3, which launched at Rs 3,499, now drops to Rs 2,799 on both consoles. …

Revenue soars to over $1bn

Fantasy MMO continues user decline

The Walt Disney Company India has formed DisneyUTV Digital, which will combine its various gaming, digital media and interactive entertainment businesses under one entity. On the gaming side, DisneyUTV Digital will include Indiagames, Disney and UTV’s gaming subsidiaries, such as Ignition Entertainment. The division will also include other media properties …

EA has made a surprise announcement of Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel, the third game in its third-person co-op shooter franchise. Development of the franchise now changes hands from EA Montreal to Dead Space creator Visceral Games, and the new game will be developed using DICE’s famed Frostbite 2 …

Landmark figure reached a year after launch

Activision has seen its revenues fall, down from $1.15bn in 2011 to 1.08bn in 2012, for the quarter ending June 30th, 2012. Yet this is better than the company’s predictions, and as a result it has raised its net revenue outlook for the calendar year to 4.33bn (up from 4.2bn). …

Paul Meegan has quit his post as head of LucasArts. The George Lucas-owned studio has undergone a number of restructures and management changes – but Meegan it was hoped would push it forwards after one of many rounds of layoffs. He lead the studio to announcing Star Wars 1313, a …