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The Witcher franchise has sold over 4m units across all platforms, developer CD Projekt Red has announced. The number was reached based on combined sales of The Witcher on PC and Mac and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings on PC and Xbox 360. "I’m still amazed with the result …

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A proposed console based on the Android operating system with a price of under $100 could soon be a reality. A new start-up developing the Ouya console has already secured private funding, but sought an additional $950,000 via crowd-funding site Kickstarter. It reached its goal in just eight hours, and …

PlayStation Pub Fund title Papo & Yo will finally see the light of day this August as part of the PlayStation Network Play 2012 promotion. The PSN-only puzzle-platformer will be accompanied in the promotion by three other new releases – movie tie-in The Expendables 2: The Video Game; long awaited …

Develop Conference: 'These mod devs are able to iterate and ship straight away', if we can't do that we'll lose'

EyeToy Kama Sutra could have been a notable addition to Sony’s PS2 library – had the platform holder known how to go about QA testing it. "There was a genuine pitch from a developer who pitched EyeToy Kama Sutra,” SCE producer Pete Smith told Eurogamer. Seriously, this was a genuine …

Steam will not introduce any functionality to allow gamers to sell on products they buy digitally, it has said. We don’t have any plans to change,” was the stark response given (twice) to PCGamesN by Valve’s business development director Jason Holtman. The comments come following last week’s revelation that the …