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QV Software (QVS) has announced a Dead Island preview party to be held on Thursday (28th of July) at the Mana Bar in Fitzroy, Melbourne. To conclude a day-long press event, from 6.30pm onwards fans will have a chance to see the game well before September release date, win prizes …

Hacktivist group Anonymous says it has successfully hacked both NATO and News International, obtaining key News of the World information in the process. However, it has now reneged on an earlier promise to post internal News International emails the groups claimed to have stolen. "We think, actually we may not …

PC and Xbox 360 download hit Super Meat Boy may have been heavily pirated but the game’s developers say it isn’t a problem. Speaking on a DarkZero podcast, as reported by Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Team Meat founders Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes said piracy could translate into sales. Our game …

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Square Enix has lifted the lid on a massively multiplayer online version of its Championship Manager football franchise. Called Championship Manager: World of Football, the game will of course be free-to-play and will be accessible from any standard web browser. It is being developed by both series stalwart Beautiful Game …

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CCP’s experimental console shooter Dust 514 won’t be quite as free-to-play at launch as we had come to expect. Upon its unveiling at E3 in June, it was revealed that as well as being digital-only the game would also be F2P, with in-game microtransactions encouraged by the developers. However, CCP …

Many thought we’d seen the last of him, but Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi has finally found a project to drag him out of the gaming doldrums – indie MMO Glitch. The studio has announced via its blog that Takahashi has joined the studio. In fact, he and his family …

The deadline for rough draft submissions to the MoMinis Studio GameCast contest is July 10th. The company is accepting submissions in video format that should demonstrate the concept and gameplay of your mobile game and anything else you wish to explain, including what you plan to add to the game …