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2K’s shooter reboot of the XCOM franchise appears to be a long ways off. Announcement of the delay comes from Take-Two’s latest financial report, following word that XCOM: Enemy Unknown has been confirmed for an October 2012 release. The report dates the game for ‘fiscal year 2014′, slating it for …

Sony’s cloud-based music service application Music Unlimited will arrive on the Apple App Store this Friday, the company has announced. The new app allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to listen to their music library, channels, and playlists, add songs to said playlists, discover related artists and tracks, and browse …

Take-Two has revealed Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 has shipped 3m units since its release last week. The publisher announced the launch numbers in its fiscal 2012/Q4 2012 financial report released earlier today. Take-Two also revealed a slight delay for the PC version of the third-person shooter sequel, with an international …

Take-Two Interactive hasreportedfourth quarter and full-year results for its fiscal 2012. Fourth quarter revenue dropped to $148.1m compared to $182.3m in fiscal 2011, with net losses hitting $66m compared to a $22.4m profit the year prior. For the full year results, net revenue fell to $825.8m from $1.14bn last year; …

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Restructure for BioWare Austin after MMO loses 25% of subscribers

Dominic Sacco, currently staff writer for MCV, has been announced as the new deputy editor of sister publication Toy News. Sacco joined Intent Media in February 2010 as staff writer on MCV. Prior to this, he was a senior web journalist and copywriter for over two years at Trader Media …

The transition between Xbox 360 and Xbox 720 will take place between 2013 and 2015, Activision anticipates. It does not expect to make titles for PS4 until 2016, however. As revealed by court documents detailing the publishing deal between Activision and Bungie, the title known as Destiny Games #1 IS …