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PC online multiplayer service GameRanger is battling to keep multiplayer alive in a number of games affected by the upcoming GameSpy server shutdown.

What if a Buffy the Vampire Slayer game was in development and old-school LucasArts was still alive to make it?

Nintendo has ended the financial year with another loss due to the Wii U's continuing poor performance.

The latest game from Angry Birds developer Rovio is an iOS side-scroller with mechanics similar to Flappy Bird.

The developers of the Outcast HD reboot have admitted defeat in their Kickstarter campaign.

Infinity Ward's first-person shooter Call of Duty: Ghosts is the best-selling PlayStation 4 and Xbox One game, Activision has said.

The developer of crowd-funded PC space game Star Citizen has issued a response to accusations of sexism within its forum after moderators banned a player who started a thread titled "Female Gamers Group".

I love the setting for The Breakout, an adventure game that's just entered its last week on Kickstarter. The pressure-cooker confines of a Second World War POW camp seems the perfect focus for a tale of ingenuity and escape, while Pixel Trip Studios, the team behind the project, has created a wonderfully loose-limbed graphical style that manages to elegantly update those great old 1940s propaganda posters for the era of Threadless T-shirts. Up until now, however, the Kickstarter campaign's been struggling: with 6 days left at the time of writing, Pixel Trip's over £35,000 short of its £49,5000 goal.

UPDATE 07/05/2014: Hack 'n' Slash has finally launched on Steam Early Access, where it costs £14.99 (or £18.99 with the soundtrack).

UPDATE 07/05/2014 1.40am: Need for Speed: Rivals developer Ghost Games has responded to the news that it won't be releasing a new racing game this year.

Bungie's upcoming persistent online multiplayer shooter Destiny will enter a beta in July ahead of its 9th September launch on PS4, Xbox One, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Respawn's flashy first-person shooter Titanfall sold 925K retail copies in the US in March alone, EA chief operating officer Peter Moore stated during a financial call today.

Mutant Mudds and Dementium developer Renegade Kid attempted to break into the console market with its proposed first-person horror game Cult County, but the Kickstarter campaign for that project failed to meet even a tenth of its $580K goal. Instead, the studio has changed course and its founder, Jools Watsham, has announced on Twitter that the team will be "developing a new experimental 2D game for 3DS."

Indie developer Dakko Dakko - the studio behind The 2D Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character and Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims - is releasing its 2D shmup/platforming hybrid, Scram Kitty and his Buddy on Rails, on the Wii U eShop 15th May.

How good would N64 classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time look if it was made using Unreal Engine 4?

The open beta for subscription-based sci-fi MMO Wildstar launches on 8th May, developer Carbine Studios has announced.

They say that patience is a virtue, but when you apply this logic to installation times and online video buffering, it's fair to say that waiting isn't something we embrace with open arms. It's why PC enthusiasts buy solid-state drives. They offer significantly smaller storage capacity, but if you feel the same way about loading screens as most people do about commercial breaks and doctor's waiting rooms, then there's no better way to enjoy a game while keeping the interruptions to a minimum.

Close your eyes and let the shapes rise from the mist: the POW camps of World War 2. See the barbed wire, the watchtowers; feel the distant rumble of violence. Adam Jeffcoat, game director, artist and animator at Pixel Trip Studios, spent a lot of time in these camps as a child - in a manner of speaking, at least. Now, as an adult, he wants to go back - and he wants to take us with him.

UPDATE: Promising indie horror Caffeine is now available to try in a new Unreal Engine 4-powered demo.

Valve has hauled first-person sci-fi post-apocalyptic open-world game Earth: Year 2066 from Steam Early Access and offered refunds to disgruntled customers.

The long-awaited Squad Join feature has been added to the console versions of first-person shooter Battlefield 4.

While many games will survive the upcoming shutdown of GameSpy's servers, one will not: Star Wars Battlefront 2.

UPDATE: The PC version of Killer is Dead will now launch on 23rd May, the game's Steam listing has revealed.

Assassin's Creed 3 lead animator Jonathan Cooper has joined Naughty Dog's team working on the next Uncharted.

"I needed something to make the water look more evil," Gareth Noyce says as he talks through what constitutes work for him right now. "Then I forgot to take the collision off, and I was jumping off the water and noticed I bounced right off of it - and I thought 'hello!'"

It was billed as Eve of Destruction, and it was the talk of Eve FanFest on Friday leading up to the event. How could these amateurs - these game developers - stand up to one of the best MMA fighters around, Gunnar "Gunni" Nelson? How uncomfortable would it be to watch?

Microsoft has downplayed comments by founder Bill Gates, who said in a recent interview that he would "absolutely" support CEO Satya Nadella if he wanted to spin-off the company's Xbox division.

Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn has managed to beat its crowd-funding goal on the campaign's final day and secure a release for PC, PlayStation 3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Wii U.

Bethesda has geo-locked the uncensored version of first-person shooter Wolfenstein: The New Order on PC in order to prevent its sale in Germany.

Activision will spend a whopping $500m on Bungie's sci-fi shared-world shooter Destiny in its attempt to make it the company's next billion dollar franchise.