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Mirroring the way it quietly announced the service last month, Microsoft has quietly gone ahead and activated some of its planned Xbox Live cloud save functionality. Pocket-Lint reports that certain unspecified Xbox Live Arcade titles will now allow users to to download and resume saved games from any console. It …

Grand Theft Auto V may have been disappointingly missing in action at this year’s E3, but a new fan mod for GTA IV has hinted at the graphical strides the next incarnation of the series could make. The patch, called iCEnhancer 1.2 adds a number of shader and lighting effects …

Though it will make little difference to users of the service, Microsoft has confirmed that as of tomorrow (July 6th) the Xbox 360 Sky Player will be rebranded as Sky Go. Users will have to accept new T&Cs, though all other conditions remains the same – users must have a …

In an announcement that’s likely to excite plenty of dedicated gamers, publisher Ubisoft has unveiled a new line of goods dubbed UbiCollectibles. The brand will see popular franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Might & Magic and Ghost Recon adapted into collectible figures, statues and all sorts. The first Assassin’s Creed …

Audrey Leprince and Emeric Thoa want to create triple-A games for mobile platforms

A new report from games market research firm Newzoo has revealed that the majority of UK nationals are now active gamers. In total it estimates the 31m of the 60m people in the UK population now spend money on games. 49m are active internet users. And while the console sector …

The fact that Sony Ericsson’s PlayStation Certified Xperia Play handset is a phone first and foremost and a games device second is the key differentiator that will save it from an N-Gage style fate. That’s according to Sony Ericsson market development head Dom Neil-Dwyer, who explained to Gamasutra why he …

Considered making Crysis 2 developer an official first party studio

PC indie success hits new milestone â?? and the game is still in its beta

Over 10m players have registered to play Minecraft in just over two years. The downloadable PC world-building game hit the new milestone well ahead of its full release this November. It was initially released in May 2009 and has since launched on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. Minecraft was created …