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Valve has hired economics professor Yanis Varufakis, who will be helping the games company navigate the labyrinth of digital economies. Varufakis, a native of Athens, has become well known for mixing labyrinths and economics as an influential commenter on the Euro Zone Crisis, and author of "The Globabl Minotaur". It …

The British Board of Film Classification notes the BioShock Ultimate Rapture Edition as headed for a UK release. The pack will include Bioshock, Bioshock 2, and all of the latter’s DLC, Eurogamer reports. Without an official announcement from 2K Games, we’re left to guess on platform/pricing/release info; or if the …

A game show pilot based on the mobile hit game Draw Something is being produced for CBS. Variety reports the television network will ready a pilot of the Zynga acquisition, after beating out several other networks in a bidding war for the rights to the pitch. Sony Pictures Television, Embassy …

Nintendo has provided new details for the Kirby anthology announced at their Nintendo Direct event this past April. VG247 reports Kirby’s Dream Collection (as it’s now being referred to) will arrive in Japan next month on July 19th, with a September release planned for North America and Europe. One NES, …

Valve has announced Steam’s top ten selling titles and products from the past week. Looks like Stardock made the right move finally coming around to the idea of their titles on distributors outside of Impulse (now currently owned by GameStop), as the latest in the Sins of a Solar Empire …

Changes to industry 'good for developers, not good for retailers'

No, we don’t think so either. But the latest rumour about tomorrow’s expected Microsoft ‘iPad rival’ unveiling says the new device is an ereader table that ‘streams Xbox Live’. [UPDATE: TechCrunch, via Twitter, has clarified to the author of this piece what it means but ‘Xbox Live streaming’ – apparently, …

Microsoft’s Xbox roadmap includes the 2013 launch a $299 Xbox 360 successor and Kinect 2, convincing-looking (but dubious) documents posted online claim. Uncorroborated as genuine, presentation slides from a purported August 2010 meeting posted to Scribd suggest the format holder’s roadmap for its home console were once projected to include: …

Max Payne Mobile, a recreation of the first Max Payne game for mobile devices, is now available for Android. The Android version has been optimised for the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, featuring antistrophic texture filtering and enhanced lighting. The game also supports select USB gamepads, haptic vibration effects, and adjustable …

Ryse, the melee combat Kinect title from Crytek, which was revealed at Microsoft’s E3 press conference last year, won’t be hitting stores for at least another year, the platform owner has revealed. Speaking to The Verge, Microsoft’s Phil Spencer said that while the game was still very much in production, …