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Ahead of its UK release on March 23rd, Kid Icarus: Uprising has received high praise from Japan’s weekly games mag Famitsu. Andriasang reports that the latest issue awards Nintendo’s upcoming 3DS game 40/40 – the highest score it can hand out. Famitsu works differently to most consumer mags in that …

Develop explores why an increasing number of studios are sending work outwards

The rise of movie streaming services Netflix and Lovefilm in the UK has forced the Competition Commission to delay its investigation into BSkyB’s subscription movie services. Last summer the Competition Commission announced plans to investigate Sky Movies’ deal with the major Hollywood studios for its pay TV offer. However, The …

Leading European studios Guerrilla Games and Crytek are dedicating resources to next generation game technologies, new job vacancy listings show. The Killzone and Crysis creators are just two of many studios across the continent now hiring staff for work on future platforms, according to a series of vacancies posted on …

It appears the delayed PC launch of Remedy’s horror-action title Alan Wake has been more than punctual in its payoff to the developer. Just shy of two years after it shipped back in May 2010, the game has hit and moved past 2m units sold on Xbox 360 and PC. …

BioWare has released a new app to assist those who just can’t seem to get enough Mass Effect. The Mass Effect 3 ‘datapad’ is available now for free on the app store, offering interested parties access to extra features and info including codex entries from all three titles in the …

Almost 90,000 supporters back old school adventure game

The Double Fine Kickstarter experiment has come to a close, raising some $3.33m in funding exclusively through the crowdfunding site. Over 87,000 backers piled up funds that all told ended up exceeding one of project head and designer Tim Schafer’s previous works, Grim Fandango. The effort’s original aim was to …

BioWare has announced an extended free weekend for their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic kicking off this Thursday. Starting on March 15th at 1:01am ET, anyone who registers for a weekend pass free trial will be able to create a new character and play up to level 15. Pass …

An image from an unknown source has surfaced showing off apparent upcoming multiplayer DLC for Mass Effect 3. Originally picked up by Reddit (via Eurogamer), the image itself shows off a handful of multiplayer characters, such as the Geth Infiltrator and Engineer, Batarian Soldier and Sentinel, the Asari Justicar, and …