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Sony announced yesterday that Studio Liverpool, best known for the WipEout series, was in the process of being shut down. Reports today suggest that the studio was working on a new WipEout game and a stealth action game in the vein of Splinter Cell for the yet unannounced PlayStation 4. …

Six years into a console’s life cycle, you’d expect hardware prices to be dropping, but in India, Microsoft has just increased the price of the Xbox 360. An increase in prices for all three Xbox 360 SKUs has been conveyed to retailers, with prices going up from Rs 1,000 to …

Specialist games retailer Game4u today announced its preorder bonuses for FIFA 13 and Resident Evil 6. While all retailers are offering bonus DLC on preorders of FIFA 13, Game4u is additionally offering personalised t-shirts on preorders across all platforms. The preorder DLC includes codes for FIFA Ultimate Team, Adidas All …

Sony Computer Entertainment India today announced the launch of the PlayStation India Facebook page. This is the first official presence for PlayStation India on social media. While there is an Indian version of PlayStation.com, it mostly carries updates from the European sites with little local information. Sony has been slow …

EA Mobile has kicked off a new promotion that offers users bonus content for some of its popular iOS freemium titles. The offer applies on Monopoly Hotels, The Sims FreePlay, Theme Park, World Series of Poker and Bejeweled Blitz! Here’s what bonus content each game offers: Monopoly Hotels: 50 Gold …

This month’s three big releases are in stores now, and despite a spate of festivals and bank holidays,there haven’t been significant delays. The console versions of Square Enix’s open-world romp Sleeping Dogs, which was set for release on 17th August, reached retailers on time, but the PC version was delayed …

The release of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron in India will be delayed to next month, Activision’s Indian distributor has revealed. The official release date for High Moon Studios’ latest is 24th August, which is only a few days away, but Worldwide CD ROMs has confirmed that India will miss that …

Mumbai-based indie games developer Yellow Monkey Studios is set to release its third game this month. Mobile puzzler Huebrix follows 2011’s award-winning It’s Just a Thought, and continues the studio’s focus on original IP. In this guest column, co-founder and creative director Shailesh Prabhu sheds some light on the issues …

Last week, while most of the gaming world had its eyes on Germany for Gamescom, Gearbox Software’s Randy Pitchford flew down to Singapore for a preview of the studio’s upcoming game – Borderlands 2. The event kicked off with Pitchford walking a roomful of journalists from around Asia through the …

2K Games has revealed that Indian consumers who preorder Borderlands 2 will receive a bunch of DLC as a bonus, including the all new Mechromancer character class. Those who preorder the game in India will receive the Borderlands 2 Premiere Club, which includes: Mechromancer class – Available as downloadable content …