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The prequel to the original Gears of War trilogy will launch next March. Epic Games creatively announced the March 19th target for Gears of War: Judgmentwith a fan’s tattoo revealing the date at ComiCon in San Diego. Epic also unveiled the Island map for the game’s Overrun multiplayer mode. People …

Marvel’s Deadpool will at last star in his own video game, Activision has announced—via Deadpool of course. The unveiling of the title came about this weekend at ComicCon in San Diego, where it was also revealed that the most recent Transformers developer High Moon Studios will be handling development. The …

Valve has revealed the top selling titles for the week prior, with the first three days of the Steam Summer Sale figuring in quite a bit. ArmA II still grabs the top spot despite being just 20 per cent off for the initial days of the sale. The rest of …

Images of the rumoured PS3 4000 – or PS3 Super Slim – have appeared online. Brazilian tech site Tecnoblog says it sourced the stills from a Sony filing with telcoms regulator Anatel. As is consistent with previous rumours, the new model appears to have a flip-top lid as opposed to …

'Time to move on' for Daniel Goldfarb

We talk to the people behind the hackable console and ask why they've taken to crowdfunding

VIDEO: The industry's finest prove themselves good sports in the opening video to the Develop Awards 2012

A gala ceremony in Brighton was attended by over 550 people from 150 companies, where they saw the likes of Moshi Monsters, Dear Esther and World of Tanks handed highly-coveted awards. Now in its tenth year, the Develop Industry Excellence Awards recognise creative, commercial and technical smarts. Taking place at …

Earth Defense Force 4 has been revealed by publisher D3. It’s the fourth instalment in the cult ‘B-movie’ alien shooting romp. Sadly, however, a European release has not yet been confirmed. "Unfortunately I have no additional information that I can share about EDF4,” a D3 statement released to Eurogamer read. …

Unreal Engine creator fends off illustrious competition for top prize