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Warner Interactive has confirmed an official UK release date for LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7. The game will be released on Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, Wii, DS, 3DS and PC on November 18th. It will span the events of Order of the Phoenix, The Half-Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows. …

EA has at last confirmed a release date for its multiplayer beta for Battlefield 3. It will go live and be accessible to all from Thursday September 29th, less than a month before the game’s global release. Consumers who have previously purchased specific Medal of Honor SKUs or have pre-ordered …

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The GAME Group has confirmed that it has rolled out its PlayStation digital games offering to all 615 of its GAME and Gamestation stores in the UK. Earlier this month the chain confirmed that it had rolled out its Xbox Live catalogue nationwide. Over 40 PSN products are now available …

The Homefront 2 project will be created with Crytek’s cutting-edge game platform CryEngine 3, the company has told Develop. Crytek also confirmed that its UK subsidiary studio, based in Nottingham, will lead the project. Crytek UK is rumoured to be working on TimeSplitters 4. With Homefront 2’s 2014 release date, …

Tech upgrade for THQ's military shooter; project due 2014

EA is edging ever closer to usurping the Facebook games kingpin Zynga, with The Sims Social now reaching more than 50 million monthly active users. Zynga’s Cityville – the most popular game in Facebook’s short but dramatic history – stands atop the leaderboard with 74 million monthly users, according to …

THQ has announced that a sequel to its Homefront FPS is in the works which will be produced by Crytek. The Crysis creator picks up development duties for the second instalment in the war franchise, after Kaos Studios produced the first game. This was released back in March on Xbox …

THQ's military shooter scheduled for 2014 release

New tools allow social devs to access public player info