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Games axed at the eleventh hour due to unimpressive performance, paper claims

Magazine on hand at UE3 company's two UK 'developer days'

Reasons for Homefront dev's closure 'troubling', says boss of nearby studio

Having caused further havoc with EVE Online players overnight, LulzSec has stepped up its anarchic digital crusade by publishing the email and password details of 62,000 internet users. The kicker this time is that the group has not revealed the source of the information. Instead, users are left worrying whether …

Game Republic, the Japanese studio responsible for a string of PlayStation-exclusive games, is believed to have closed down after eight years in business. The studio, founded by Japanese industry luminary Yoshiki Okamoto, is thought to have vacated its Tokyo offices. Its website servers are no longer online. Okamoto’s group built …

Activision has announced that the next Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC will go live on June 28th. Entitled Annihilation, the map pack contains four new multiplayer arenas and a new scenario for the popular Zombies mode. As with the previous two DLC packs, First Strike and Escalation, this will …

ShopTo isn’t your traditional online video games retailer. Apart from picking and packing certain games in less than five minutes and sending them out on the same day, the website also has its own iPhone app and text message service, where customers can check stock and prices on the move. …

Tapjoy on the offensive against Apple

NPC behaviour specialists offer 50% discount for limited time

An unsurprisingly anonymous member of hacker community Anonymous has stated that the collective has stopped its attack on Sony. Amazingly, the reason for the decision was what is described as the "selfish" reaction to the attacks on PSN. "We are no longer attacking Sony, there is nothing more to gained …