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Orgainzers of Child’s Play have revealed over $5m was raised during 2012 for the games industry charity. The figure marks the biggest year yet for the organization, topping 2011’s then-record-setting $3.5m by a wide margin. "We are overwhelmed, honored, grateful, and incredibly proud to be a part of such an …

En Masse and Bluehole Studio have announced their subscription-based MMO Tera will be jumping on the free-to-play train. The switch is expected to be flipped sometime in February, less than a year after the game’s launch. A new item store with real money transactions will arrive alongside the Tera: Rising …

Community members of Southington, the Connecticut town that made news last week when it revealed the blueprints for a program to collect and destroy violent video games, have announced they no longer plan to proceed with that portion of their mission. We succeeded in our program," spokesman Dick Fortunato told …

Kickstarter has put together and released an annual report, revealing several key figures hit by the crowdfunding site during 2012. The site saw more than 2.2m people donate nearly $320m total, with over 18,000 projects successfully reaching or exceeding their goal. It was, as you might expect, a banner year …

The 3DS has hit a major milestone, selling over 10m systems in Japan. Enterbrain data via Famitsu reveals the 3DS and 3DS LL have combined to sell 10,068,192 units as of January 6th. The 3DS line reached the figure in 98 weeks, a feat that took its predecessor the DS …

Activision has officially confirmed the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops II DLC pack Revolution, announcing it will arrive later this month on Xbox 360. Originally outed last week by leaked promotional materials, the add-on will carry the new zombie mode ‘Turned,’ five new maps, and the new Peacekeeper SMG …

Social games studio Majesco Boston has closed down, at least according to a former employee. GI.biz reports that the developer’s former senior producer Chris Pasley claimed as much in a Facebook update. I enjoyed my time at Majesco,” Pasley said. I hate that it ended so abruptly with the whole …

Mojang has revealed the latest milestone for its multi-platform hit Minecraft, announcing that the Xbox 360 Edition has reached 5m sales. Mojang’s Daniel Kaplan shared the info on Twitter, adding that the number was reached on the final day of 2012. The word comes just days after the company announced …

Another Humble Bundle has come and gone, and once again the promotion has delivered some big numbers. Humble Indie Bundle 7 ended up earning $2,650,204.55 during its limited availability, moving 395,917 bundles in the process. The funds will be split between the bundle’s developers, charity, and the Humble Bundle group …

Valve appears to have made plans to reveal its custom PC-console this year. According to a report on German site Golem (via PC Gamer), Valve engineer Ben Krasnow spoke on the upcoming hardware at the EHSM 2012 conference in Berlin, how it runs on Linux, and how a full reveal …