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NCsoft has confirmed an unspecified number of employees and contractors have been let go from its Seattle offices. The company, responding to an inquiry by PC Gamer, denied murmurs of the Seattle branch closing entirely, but did reveal several jobs had been cut in a realignment” effort. NCsoft is realigning …

Steam’s Big Picture mode has gone live, introducing a controller-friendly interface for use on TVs. Big Picture mode introduces the Daisywheel typing tool to make typing via the controller more easy. It also includes an updated Web browser that can be accessed while in a game, with controls and navigation …

The follow-up to Dead Island will not make it to Germany, revealed the game’s creative producer. Techland’s Sebastian Reichert revealed Dead Island: Riptide will skip the major European games market during an interview with PCGamesN. "We have no censored version of the game so we cannot release it in Germany.” …

Valve’s PC digital games and software service Steam saw a record setting number of users this past weekend. Steam boasted over 6m users signed in concurrently during its autumn sale event–a new high water mark for the platform. The figure bests Steam’s previous record of over 5m concurrent users during …

Author Drew Wagar has taken to Kickstarter to try and raise the funds he needs to pledge money on a separate Kickstarter project. Yes, really. He wants to raise 4,500 so he can make a near top-level pledge to David Braben’s Elite Dangerous Kickstarter. Donating this amount will allow him …

Free-to-play FPS Warface is seemingly doing the business for Crytek in Russia. The studio has announced that the game has now reached 5m registered players in the territory. The news comes in the same week as the shooter received the Best Online Game accolade in Russia’s Runet Awards. Reaching the …

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Microsoft has posted a pair of job listings in search of developers to join 343 industries for future Halo endeavors. Spotted by Gamespot, the two software engineer listings are specifically seeking out those qualified for building the next generation of backend services to power Halo 4 and our new game …

Valve has revealed the top ten sellers on Steam for the week ahead of Black Friday’s promotions. Call of Duty: Black Ops II leapt to first, as its launch in the middle of the week no doubt boosted the title after making an impact a week earlier with pre-orders. Assassin’s …

Valve has initially blocked a Slender-style game from Steam Greenlight due to copyright concerns. Faceless, a title initially known as Slender: Source, was submitted to Valve’s crowd-driven service by developer Justin Ross. It has been one of the most voted games since Greenlight was launched. The game is inspired by …