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You might have heard about the Gametrailers video in which Marcus Beer called out several indie developers, including Fez creator Phil Fish, over their reaction to the Xbox One indie turnaround. Fish told him to kill himself. While many considered Beer’s criticism harsh, the over-the-top reaction was enough to turn the situation against Fish, and things seem to have happened very, very quickly.  The reaction must have been pretty bad, as, after years of saying things that have gotten him…

Superfrog HD, coming to Vita and PS3 next week will include the ability to use your Vita as a controller.

Xbox One console may now be releasing to just 13 countries if current rumours are to be believed. This is almost half those originally announced.

The Sony Press Conference being held at the Gamescom convention in Cologne next month has today been given an exact time and date.

Koch Media have announced that they're bringing Planetside 2 to retail. The free-to-play PC game will be available at stores for £7.99 from August 8th, and will come with a series of in-game items valued at over £40. The digital version of the game will, of course, stay free-to-play.

If you live in the US and haven’t yet ordered yourself a PlayStation 4, you may well be out of luck. They’re rare, and your best bet at the minute would be buying someone else’s pre-order on Ebay at four times the original cost. Not so in the UK, though. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be any issues at all. UK retailer ShopTo have revealed, via their customer service department, that Sony have advised them to keep selling PS4s,…

The new set of PlayStation 4 OS screens snuck out very quietly via Flickr, so quietly it took a short while for pictures to begin to show up in the press. Now with a little over two days spent picking them apart, the verdict is in: the new operating system is disappointing to some, and a lot of people seem unhappy.

Activision has announced that they are hard at work supporting the Wii U by bringing new titles to the platform this fall. Eric Hirshberg stated:  “As we have said before, we’re committed to doing everything we can to support the Wii U, which is why we’re excited to be bringing some of the most popular entertainment franchises in the world to the platform this year. The Call of Duty franchise continues to be one of the most powerful forces in…

A representative of Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation summer sale will be unveiled very shortly. Next week, in fact, although the sale itself may begin a little later. If you've been suffering from a bit of a withdrawal since the Steam sale ended earlier this week, there's a silver lining. The PlayStation summer sale will no doubt offer some of the best games on the PlayStation platform at a ridiculously good price. Although nothing ever drops as far as it might on PC, there's always one or two things that are worth picking up.

According to GameInformer, the Xbox One will be doing another 180. Previously, games could not access digital distribution without a publisher, but now Microsoft is reversing this policy. Self-publishing will now be available to independent developers on the Xbox One. This is welcome news, as the popularity of independent games has soared in recent years. Microsoft claims the backlash from consumers and developers is what drove them to make this decision. I don’t blame them after getting called out simply…