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Not only are hopes of Shenmue 3 still dead in the balance, but now the newest Shenmue title to hit the market has been scrapped. Launched in December 2010 in Japan, Ysnet’s Shenmue World was a social game for mobile phones. However, Andriasang reports that Ysnet announced its surprise closure …

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: …

A leaked email from Adobe appears to signal that the company is to quit development of its Flash player plug-in for mobile devices. The news has lead to many pundits proclaiming that this is the first move toward an end for Flash on the internet, as was famously predicted by …

It won’t be a shock to hear that Microsoft has admitted that it has ceased production of Zune hardware. The Zune brand will live on, however, as the face of much of Microsoft’s content sales service. It can still be found, for instance, on the Xbox dashboard as the branding …

UK developer Ninja theory has categorically stated that all plans for potential sequel to Enslaved are well and truly over. Instead, the studio is now focusing all its efforts Capcom’s Devil May Cry title DMC. "Enslaved should have done better," co-founder Tameen Antoniades told Edge (via CVG). "Right now we …

The first PES 2012 demo that is already available on PS3 will not now be released on Xbox 360 after all. Konami announced last month that the free taster had been delayed on Microsoft’s machine until some time in September. Now, however, it won’t be released at all. Sorry to …

Remember that mysterious third person Call of Duty game? It now looks like it’s unlikely to ever see the light of day. The studio that was working on it, Sledgehammer Games, has confirmed that the project has been canned. And with Sledgehammer now one of the multiple studios working on …

Short of being caught up in the News of the World phone tapping fiasco, it’s hard to imagine how things could be much worse for retro games icon Mega Man right now. Capcom has confirmed that the in development Mega Man Legends 3 is no more. It’s the second cancellation …

New consumer loyalty program PlayStation Rewards will not launch in the US next month as planned and may possibly never see the light of day. The scheme, which was announced for the American market last year, had been designed to reward PS3 owners for a range of activities including playing …

Having never succeeded in standing toe-to-toe with Apple’s mighty iPad series, reports are claiming that Microsoft is ready to call an end to its Zune hardware business. However, it doesn’t mean the end of the Zune brand – that will continue to be leveraged as a mussy and movie sales …