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A small percentage of Xbox 360 owners have reported running into freezing issues during co-op matches of Starbreeze’s just released Syndicate reboot. The EA Forums started receiving complaints soon after the title’s launch, with nearly all players reporting problems while active in co-op play. The troubles are apparently stemming from …

Sony has removed the Vita Facebook application from both US and Europe PSN Stores following reports from owners of error codes when trying to access the social network on the device. Vita owners have been unable to log in to Facebook for much of the day, with error code NP-13144-3 …

Sony to release multiplayer as a free download for PS3

Seven conferences and two masterclasses at San Francisco event

While Facebook grows, number of gamers remains stagnant

THQ’s UFC Undisputed 3 helped the UK games retail market rise 10.2 per cent to generate 14m last week. There was also retail price activity on many boxed games. This caused a 14.8 per cent increase in overall unit sales which reached 615,298 during the week ending February 18th. EA’s …

Develop lists top Tweeters and what they'll be saying on stage at the Game Developers Conference

AI company xaitment on its move to support the everyman engine

Game Closure rejects offers from Facebook, Zynga, Gree, and Motorola

Hubertz: Social networks are not the only route to success