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Place Your Bets: The smart money says Xbox 720 will debut in April

Based on the spring game release schedule and Microsoft's past history announcing new consoles, all signs point to an April coming out party for Xbox 720.

The Walking Dead game writer teases an expansion from Telltale Games before Season 2

Telltale Games is hinting that it may make a small expansion to tide fans over the long wait before it finished The Walking Dead Season 2 video game.

After a decade of waiting, is Beyond Good & Evil 2 coming to Nintendo Wii U later this year?

Ubisoft saysBeyond Good & Evil 2 is still coming, and a designer's resume says it may come to Nintendo Wii U.

Sony may mimic Xbox Live with tiered memberships for PS4 services

Gaikai game library streaming, instant game video uploading, the ability to spectate in friends' games are just some of the services proposed for PlayStation 4. How will Sony charge for them?

BioShock for the Vita remains firmly in limbo due to negotiation gridlock

Nearly two years after Ken Levine announced it at E3 2011, BioShock PS Vita still isn't in development, with Irrational waiting on Sony and 2K Games to make a deal.

Diablo 3 on PS3 and PS4 won’t connect to Blizzard’s Battle.net, won’t need to be always connected

Blizzard surprises by announcing that Diablo 3 won't connect to Battle.net network on PlayStation 3 or PlayStation 4, ruling out cross-platform play.

Corvo returns, according to leaked Dishonored DLC details

Bethesda is going to offer players another slice of adventure with Corvo in the first story-based Dishonored DLC according to a leaked list of PS3 trophies.

Square-Enix says no free-to-play for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

Square-Enix won't buckle to the free-to-play MMO trends. When Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn releases later this year, it will come with a monthly subscription fee.

Super Meat Boy creators follow-up allows you to live out your crazy cat lady fantasies

Team Meat is turning its eye to a style of game less about reflexes and more about planning. Hilarious planning. Introducing Mew-genics, the first cat lady sim.

Jetsetter: Famed game designer Michel Ancel may leave Ubisoft over Rayman Legends delay

The big story of this week's Jetsetter is that famed French developer Michel Ancel may leave Ubisoft after more than 20 years because of the Rayman Legends delay.

NIS America keeps the PS 3 alive with two new exclusive RPGs

NIS America is keeping the blood flowing through the PS3 with two exclusive role-playing games in 2013, 'Time and Eterniey' and 'The Guided Fate Paradox.'
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Unity Technologies co-founder goes indie to make his own games

In a moment when Unity Technologies is ascending, though, it's losing a key creator in Nicholas Francis who is leaving to make his own games.

BioWare gives Commander Shepard a rest with Mass Effect 3: Citadel DLC

In 2012, Electronic Arts and BioWare set the gaming industry ablaze with its divisive Mass Effect 3 story. Now it puts a final cap on that tale with Mass Effect 3: Citadel.

Bohemia Interactive embraces the Valve way, making ArmA 3 a Steam-only release

When Bohemia Interactice's military simulator ArmA 3 finally releases later this year, it will only be playable through Valve's gaming network Steam.

Iconic Sega Dreamcast game designer Kenji Eno dies at age 42

Kenji Eno, the designer of bizarre, experimental mid-'90s adventure games D and Enemy Zero for the Sega Saturn, died of heart failure at the age of 42.
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New tech is great but how much will it cost to make a PlayStation 4 game?

With the introduction of the PlayStation 4, the video game industry is waiting to see how much costs will grow, but Sony's developers say not to worry.

GameStop closes even more locations as physical game sales decline

Bracing itself for the impending new console market, GameStop will close 50 more stores in addition to the 200 it originally planned to shut down in 2013.

How GungHo could afford to buy Grasshopper thanks to a single mobile game

GungHo Online Entertainment's iOS and Android game Puzzles & Dragons is making the company more than $2 million every day, providing funds for risky business ventures like acquiring Grasshopper Manufacture.

Disney and Square tap an unusual studio to bring Kingdom Hearts free-to-play to PCs

The new free-to-play entry in the long-running Kingdom Hearts series, Kingdom Hearts X[chi], is in the hands of peculiar but talented developer Success Corporation.

As Transformers and Bond sales sink, Activision backs away from licensed games

With the sales of licensed console games like Transfomers, James Bond, and Spider-man slipping, Acitvision Blizzard is backing away from its licensed game business.

Obsidian’s canceled Aliens RPG for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 emerges online

Obsidian Entertainment's Aliens RPG was canceled in 2009 when it was said to be complete. New video of the game proves that Sega killed what appears to be a finished game.

Sony explains the long, long overdue PS Vita price drop

SCEJ president Hiroshi Kawano explains the reasons that the handheld console has failed to find an audience.

Rock Band goes on farewell tour before it stops releasing new songs in April 2013

Rock Band creator Harmonix announced that come April 2nd, it will stop releasing new downloadable content for its music games, ending 275 weeks of regular updates.

Crackdown creator Ruffian Games goes independent with Tribal Towers

Cince opening in 2008, Ruffian Games has never worked on its own project. Now it's making Tribal Towers, its first self-funded project. That's bad news for Crackdown fans.

Microsoft threatens to ban Xbox Live members after ‘Gears of War: Judgment’ leaks online

Microsoft has a tough time keeping its biggest games from slipping out the door early. Like Halo 4 in fall 2012, 'Gears of War: Judgment' has leaked ahead of its release.

Hotline Miami slaughters its way onto Sony’s PS Vita and PlayStation 3

Dennaton Games' indie hit Miami Hotline is making the jump to consoles in 2013. A new edition of the mad paean to the 1980s is coming to PlayStation 3 and PS Vita.
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GameStop fights to keep used games on PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720

GameStop's CFO Rob Llloyd says that the retailer is doing all it can to make sure that Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox 720 continue supporting used games.

System Shock 2 returns!

In the fourteen years since System Shock 2 came out, Irrational has become one of the most respected studios in the game industry. Now the game is back.

Nintendo Wii U sales spiral down in January according to the NPD Group

The Nintendo Wii U selling at 38 percent below the Wii launch. How low? Its sales are identical to the Nintendo 3DS just before its historic price cut.

The ESRB ratings work: 85% of parents understand the system

It may be impossible to make ESRB ratings more effective according to the board, as 85 percent of parents with game-playing kids are the system familiar with.

Can WWE games make 2K Sports a video game champion again?

Once a major competitor to EA's sports empire, the 2K Sports label has dwindled to just two games a year. Now that it's picked up the WWE license, can 2K Sports regain its championship status?

Wargaming continues to expand. And next, the world…

Not content with acquiring one studio in the past month, World of Tanks creator Wargaming.net acquired Gas Powered Games, creator of Dungeon Siege, on Tuesday.

Nintendo embraces the mercenary world of DLC with New Super Luigi U

Nintendo is remaking the New Super Mario Bros. U from the ground up for Luigi's DLC expansion. New Super Luigi U, though, is the type of content Nintendo offered for free in the past.

Nintendo re-releasing Wii games, now with an extra dimension!

Nintendo didn't wow with new Mario games, but the announcement of Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D provides an interesting glimpse into the future of the Nintendo 3DS handheld.

A tantalizing update on The Last Guardian from the game’s creator

The Last Guardian director Fumito Ueda gave a brief update on his long in the works title, promising that he is still in creative control of the PlayStation 3 game.

Sega and Gearbox Software stand by studio’s work on Aliens: Colonial Marines amid critical drubbing

Rumors suggest that Gearbox Software outsourced the entire single-player campaign of Aliens: Colonial Marines to another studio, but Gearbox and Sega both say the game is Gearbox's.

Homebrew hero keeps Nintendo DS alive with a port of Valve’s Portal

After nine years, Nintendo is ready to retire the Nintendo DS, but fans of the console aren't ready to let it die just yet. One homebrew game maker is working on Portal DS.

Fan filmmakers beat Bad Robot to the punch with Half-Life: The Freeman Chronicles miniseries

Enter the Freeman, a short fan-made film based on Valve's Half-Life games, will expand into a full miniseries this year in Half-Life: The Freeman Chronicles.