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User base projected to fall to 1.25 million by March 2013

Attendees of last night’s MCV Awards 2012 were treated to a big-screen look at EA’s upcoming shooter Medal of Honor: Warfighter. The trailer gives a taste of the high-octane action including in the game, including several major cities and LOTS of explosions. The new Medal of Honor is due out …

Shopaholic games ported to App Store

Anonymous sources are claiming that a contract dispute is behind the delay of Prey 2. Bethesda yesterday dispelled rumours that the game had been canned, though did concede that it had been delayed to some point in 2013. Now ShackNews claims to have word from a secretive insider that the …

David Braben speaks out on controversial advertising practices used by games developers

But the studio's co-founder hopes for future partnerships

The Maxis senior VP gets the rapid-fire question treatment

Activision has released a brand new trailer for upcoming action title Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. And this time the limelight is handed over to Dinobot leader and general Jurassic badass Grimlock. As well as some concept art, we also see him in-action via some alpha game footage. Watch out for …

EA has released the first – it must be said, very short – trailer for recently announced 2013 shooter Crysis 3. In it we see the first footage of protagonist Prophet and the cover-adorning new crossbow. The game sees Prophet return to New York to find it encased in a …

Such has been the fantastic and ongoing success of Xbox 360 in the last few years that the industry can’t help but be worried when the market leader posts such disappointing numbers. Microsoft has reported that total Xbox 360 hardware sales hit 1.4m units shipped for the quarter ending March …