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Publisher Activision has backtracked on a statement that appeared to suggest that Call of Duty Elite may never get a dedicated release on PC. Though the PC version of the service has already been delayed, its official Twitter feed threw the community into panic last night with the following tweet: …

Four million of you have already played it, but two years on from its initial launch PC hit Minecraft has finally been completed. All copies of the game sold to date have either been the alpha or beta version. However, creator Markus Persson has confirmed via Twitter that the game …

PC fantasy adventure game sells 240,000 digital copies in six months

Valve has confirmed rumours circulating earlier this week that hackers have compromised the Steam network and, most worryingly, a database of information and personal data was compromised. A plundered Steam database, managed by games giant Valve, contains information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing …

Email and billing addresses, encrypted passwords and personal data has been breached

Perfect World Entertainment has confirmed the day on which it will flick the free-to-play switch for Star Trek Online. The game will be free and available to all on January 17th, Videogamer reports. Since its launch in 2010 the MMO has operated using a standard subscription model. However, the exodus …

Nvidia chip lauded for bringing 'console quality graphics' to platform

Just days ahead of the worldwide release of Modern Warfare 3, Activision has announced that its Call of Duty Elite service will not launch on PC alongside the game. Furthermore, it isn’t currently able to give an ETA. We’re as committed as ever to the PC, but the need to …

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