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Move over, Miyamoto. Step aside, Steam. The games industry says former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the iPhone were most influential thing to happen to interactive entertainment. A survey of over 1,000 industry execs has put the two at the top of the league tables when it comes to which …

The studio behind Too Human and X-Men Destiny has verified that a significant portion of its workforce has been let go. Silicon Knights’ CFO Mike Mays said that 45 employees have been laid off, with just under 40 workers remaining, according to the Financial Post. This is slightly better than …

Namco Bandai’s rock hard RPG Dark Souls has reached 1.5m shipments worldwide in just over one month. Andriasang reports that more copies of the game have been shipped to retailers in Europe than its home country Japan, with 470,000 shipped in the former and 370,000 the latter. 40,000 units have …

Gears of War 3 owners will be able to download a free map pack on November 24th, Epic Games has confirmed. The Versus Booster Map Pack will include five maps for online play – including Bullet Marsh and Clocktower from the original Gears of War game. The other three are …

Sony’s Uncharted 3 arrives in the UK today (yes, a Wednesday!) and HMV has once again emerged as the retailer with the most competitive offer. The retailer will sell the game for 2.99 to anyone willing to trade in a PS3 copy of either Battlefield 3 or Batman: Arkham City. …

There are just a few hours left until Rockstar releases the first ever trailer for Grand Theft Auto V. Rumours have been rife about the game since it was first unveiled last week. The safe money remains on the game revisiting the antics and locations of San Andreas. However, some …

Market research company Newzoo has made the bold prediction that Grand Theft Auto V will be released as a digital-only product. The prediction comes just hours ahead of the official debut trailer which is due for release at 16:00GMT today. "There are a lot of reasons why publishers are pushing …

Will Luton shares six concepts that helped shape Mobile Pie

Sony’s PlayStation 3 is now within 1.3m unit sales of catching the Xbox 360. The latest financial numbers from Sony say that the console has now sold 56m units. Microsoft numbers in October said that it has sold 57.3m Xbox 360 consoles worldwide. That PS3 has nearly closed the gap …

Microsoft has teamed up with GAME to allow fans to play Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary weeks before its November 15th release date. One event will take place on November 4th at Gamestation’s Birmingham New Street store, while a second will kick off on November 12th in GAME’s Kingston Upon Thames …