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Retail’s hope of integrating the digital games market into its pre-owned model looks less likely than ever. There have been various effort and legal attempts to enforce the allowed trade-in and resale of digital games over the years, but GameSpot reports that GameStop COO Tony Bartel has said at the …

The workaround that lets Oculus Rift games run on HTC Vive may be in danger. Yesterday it emerged that a third party program released on Github allows any Oculus Rift title to be played on the HTC Vive headset. The first release allows titles such as Lucky’s Tale and Dreamdeck …

There will be a Ghostbusters game for consoles and PC releasing around the same time as the upcoming film. However, while Amy Pascal and Ivan Reitman’s movie will feature four female ‘busters, Activision’s game will not follow suit. Nor will it feature the original cast from the 1984 film. In …

Breathe a sigh of relief – gamers who feared they may have lost their characters in The Division have been told their data is safe. Following the release of the game’s 1.1 patch this week some players were aghast to discover that their characters had vanished. However, the cause has …

Recently we saw Flappy Bird forcibly inserted into a running copy of Super Mario World. Its ambitions clearly don’t stop there, however. Kotaku reports that the former smartphone hit has now for the first time been ported to an unfamiliar handheld – an e-cigarette. The eVic-VTC Mini ecig, from manufacturer …

Obsidian Entertainment is now the home to two of the guiding forces behind the original Fallout. Leonard Boyarsky is perhaps best known as the art director who introduced Fallout’s iconic Vault Boy icons while working at Interplay Entertainment in the mid-1990s. He later left to form Vampire: The Masquerade – …

Blizzard has suffered an attack on its servers that halted access to many of its games. Hacking group Lizard Squad has claimed credit for the attacks on social media, pre-empting the downtime with a Get Ready” message. It has also warned that further attacks are on the way, although Blizzard’s …

It seems as if Oculus Rift exclusives are exclusive only in name. Polygon reports that a third party program released on Github allows any Oculus Rift title to be played on the HTC Vive headset. The first release allows titles such as Lucky’s Tale and Dreamdeck to happily run on …

The links between games violence and real-world violence are dubious, but a new study has suggested a worrying new corroboration between some games and social attitudes. An Ohio State University study has found that young male gamers who identify with characters in violent games that objectify women show less empathy …

A small rural simulator born out of frustration with the Harvest Moon series is one of the biggest PC hits this year. Less than two weeks after its release it was reported that Stardew Valley was nearing half a million copies sold. Now Polygon has had it confirmed from publisher …