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Activision could be preparing to shock the Call of Duty world with a surprise announcement next week – a near-future setting for the title currently known as Black Ops 2. The hint comes from tongue-in-cheek YouTube show FPS Russian. The latest episode demos a quadrotor RC attack drone that bears …

Q1 revenue boosted by 15% through Zynga activities

Konami has lifted the lid on this year’s on this year’s instalment of its popular football series PES 2013. The game will see the series returning to its roots, with the emphasis on the individual skills of the world’s best players, and giving the player the total freedom to play …

A third PSP game has been removed from the PlayStation Store after it emerged that the title was being used to allow homebrew gaming on Vita. Prior to its removal Super Collapse was being used by hackers to access and run homebrew software Vita Half-Byte loader which, amongst other things, …

Net income declines 12%; Quarter-to-quarter revenues slide; Network hits 900 million monthly active users

Our monthly studio recruitment update looks at Crytek, Version 2 Games and new studio PixelFoundry

'As an industry we have a lot to learn on how to treat talent' says ex-Call of Duty man

Valve and Steam boss Gabe Newell has slammed EA’s rival Origin download service, saying that he "doesn’t think EA are doing anything super-well yet”. "They have a bunch of smart people working on it but I think they’re still playing catch up to a lot of people who have been …

Nintendo has confirmed that New Super Mario Bros 2 will be released for the 3DS this August in Europe. That’s the same month the game is due out in Japan and North America. As you would expect from the modern, family-friendly Nintendo the game has been created specifically as a …

GameStop has reported a 3.6 per cent decline in like-for-like store sales for its fiscal fourth quarter. Net earnings for the period fell $63.1m to $174.7m – that’s a drop of 27 per cent. Global sales for the fiscal year remained largely static at $9.55bn, with like-for-like sales falling 2.1 …