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With a 90 per cent bigger screen, more grown-up design and refined controls, 3DS XL is an attractive new device. But who has the best deal? GAME has a trade-in deal running, where you can hand over your old 3DS and buy the new machine for just 79.99 – that’s …

Bethesda has teamed up with leading UK retailers to create exclusive pre-order incentives for its hotly anticipated new IP Dishonored. GAME, Gamestation, Tesco, ShopTo.net and Amazon will each offer different add-ons for the game, which will give players new supernatural powers, according to VG247. GAME and Gamestation is offering a …

A gaggle of sites (yep, including us) have reported that Apple has ‘patented a game controller’ – but that’s not exactly true. Instead, a thorough read of the patent shows that Apple has been investigating the use of near-field communication chips and iOS, turning iPhones into controllers for all sorts …

Free-to-play shooter Warface will be co-published by developer Crytek and Trion Worlds. The latter is best known for its popular MMORPG Rift, and is currently working on MMORTS End of Nations, which launches this September. Crytek announced Warface back in 2010. The online shooter centres around both co-operative and competitive …

Hundreds of games whittled down and split across eight categories

Fans of Sony’s acclaimed racing series Gran Turismo may have to wait until the next console for a fresh outing. Series designer Kazunori Yamauchi that developer Polyphony Digital is already hard at work on GT6 and has been since GT5 was finally released in 2010. "We’re always aiming for the …

Despite reporting better than expected quarterly earnings, Facebook took a beating on the stock market yesterday. The reported Q2 earnings of $1.18 billion was slightly above expectations, but those had already been lowered prior to the launch of the company’s IPO. A net loss of $157 million for Facebook’s first …

An unknown number of employees at Warner Bros. Seattle have been laid off. This is the second time in as many years the studio has seen job cutbacks, and it is rumored that as many as 60 employees have been affected. The office houses multiple studios, including Monolith Productions, Snowblind …

UPDATE: We’ve investigated the actual patent, and it turns out this isn’t about a ‘game controller’ on its own at all. Click here to read the new story. ORIGINAL STORY: Despite the company’s preference for touch and gesture control, Apple has researched dedicated games controllers. A patent published yesterday shows …

A number of developers depart due to 'shifting business imperatives'