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A brand new colour for the 3DS will hit US retailers on September 9th, the platform holder has announced. It’s called the Flame Red edition, and it will be launched alongside the release of first party shooter Star Fox 64 3D. To date only the Aqua Blue and Cosmos Black …

ZeptoLab partnership with Chillingo 'still strong'; Significant funding round expected

Farmville creator to hire Jeff Karp following its John Schappert swoop

Amazon has announced that pre-orders for EA’s Battlefield 3 are currently tracking at 2,302 per cent above Battlefield 2. It’s an early vindication of the time and money EA has already put into its marketing activity. It seems that the risk of going so early with the hugely expensive FA …

Enhanced player control? More online options? Bah, forget it. What we want from FIFA 12 is better hair. And what we want, EA delivers. Following his high-profile hair transplant (yes, this is Britain – a high-profile” hair transplant) Man United striker Wayne Rooney has gone from ‘balding’ to ‘thinning’. And …

The Wii U will be out in 2012, many expect a new Xbox reveal at E3 next year and we know work on the PS4 has begun. But Epic president Mike Capps has questioned the need for new consoles entirely. "I think the real challenge for us now is about …

Leading social games specialist Jagex has said that its Transformers Universe MMO will enter the beta testing phase in the very near future. A 55-strong development team is currently hard at work on the title, with numbers expecting to hit 70 and total development time calculated to be under 23 …

'We are deeply saddened by the loss of another great studio' - Sega Studios Australia boss

Death of THQ Brisbane marks publisher's fourth studio closure this year alone

Digital retailer Green Man Gaming has already dabbled with the idea of digital video game trade-ins before, but now online behemoth Valve is to try its luck in the sector. Called the Steam Trading Beta, Valve’s latest idea is to allow users to trade-in various in-game items for other items …