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Article | 13/08/2012 Preview: The Sims 3: Supernatural expansion pack

The Sims 3 phenomenon is showing now signs of slowing down, with the seventh expansion to the game coming out.

Article | 11/08/2012 Zynga COO resigns

John Schappert, chief operating officer (COO) and director of online social gaming company Zynga, has resigned.

Article | 9/08/2012 Ouya ends Kickstarter campaign, prepares to launch Android-based console

Ouya, the upcoming Android-based game console from the company of the same name, ended its Kickstarter run Wednesday night, bringing in nearly $8.6 mi...

Article | 9/08/2012 Valve's Steam expands beyond games to take on app stores

Valve's Steam service isn't just for gamers anymore. Starting Sept. 5, the popular PC gaming service will offer other types of software for sale such ...

Article | 9/08/2012 Ford and Activision partner on a Ford Falcon Transformer

To celebrate the upcoming release of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Activision Blizzard has partnered with Ford Austr...

Article | 8/08/2012 DayZ To Become A Standalone Game

Yesterday we learned the popular zombie survival mod for ARMA II, DayZ, will be developed as a standalone game.

Article | 8/08/2012 A new kind of farming in World of Warcraft

Not content to recreate the entirety of Pokemon inside of their massively popular MMO, WoW has also unlocked a new farming simulator in their latest e...

Article | 30/07/2012 Gaming Top 5: How Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater influenced gaming

It may be hard now to imagine a time when skateboarding what not well represented in video games, but that was the situation until 1999 when the origi...

Article | 17/07/2012 The rise and fall of Sony

The Japanese electronics brand that once dominated that hearts and minds (not to mention wallets) of consumers is not quite as prolific these days as ...

Article | 10/07/2012 Angry Birds makers working on new Angry Pigs game

Rovio, the developers behind Angry Birds, are working on a sequel to the best selling app that will be played from the pigs' perspective.

Article | 3/07/2012 This 737-800 flight simulator can take you anywhere (sort of)

What do you do when you can no longer peruse a much-loved career and are diagnosed with a serious illness? If you happen to be an ex-commercial pilot ...

Article | 28/06/2012 Remembering Sydney’s Sega World: The little theme park that couldn’t

Sydney’s Darling Harbour area has undergone numerous changes over the decades, as the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (formerly known as the Darlin...

Article | 14/06/2012 The Diablo III Real Money Auction House goes live

The most disruptive feature in Diablo III has nothing to do with hacking and slashing your way through the forces of hell: it's the game's real money ...

Article | 12/06/2012 Gaming Top 5: Reasons to try Dragon’s Dogma

While there was a lot of hope and hype riding behind Dragon’s Dogma, it did not quite set the critical world on fire in the same way, say, The Elder S...

Article | 5/06/2012 E3 2012: Microsoft’s Xbox Smart Glass to offer complimentary content across multiple devices

Microsoft showed the new feature with traditional video games, but also with movies, television shows and web browsing

Article | 4/06/2012 Microsoft at E3 2012: SmartGlass, Halo 4, and the IE browser on Xbox

Microsoft took center stage at the Electronic Entertainment Expo on Monday introducing new software called SmartGlass designed to make sharing content...

Article | 4/06/2012 E3 2012: Ubisoft heads to the frontier with Assassin's Creed III

Gamers will be able to explore American history this October in a brand new way, courtesy of Ubisoft's Montreal development studio. Set against the ba...

Article | 29/05/2012 Soccer games vie for top honors on the iPhone, iPad

If you've got an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you don't have to let something as inconvenient as an off-season stand in the way of you and constant so...

Article | 30/05/2012 Diablo 3 being called "Big Pineapple" in China to dodge sales ban

Vendors on one of China's largest e-commerce platforms are resorting to calling the hit PC game Diablo 3 "Big Pineapple," which sounds similar in Mand...

Article | 25/05/2012 In Pictures: top 10 games of 2012 (so far)

The first half of the year is a great time to be a gamer. This is the time for big-budget, blockbuster games that publishers pushed beyond the holiday...