The UK sales figures for the Christmas period reveal mostly what was expected all along - FIFA, Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed take the top three positions, while the other big releases of the last few months  - Batman, Gran Turismo, GTA V, Forza etc obviously take their place…

Michael Acton Smith, the founder of the extremely popular Moshi Monsters series, has been awarded an OBE in the Queens New Years Honours List for 2014. The OBE is recognising Mr Smith in the category of Industry and economy in the entrepreneurs section. A fantastic award and very much deserved.…

A group calling themselves DERP intermittently took down multiple online gaming sites and servers yesterday via a DDoS attack. League of Legends from Riot Games took the biggest hit with the NA/EU/OCE servers being down for most of the day along with LoL websites and forums. The group also targeted…

EA DICE have postponed the scheduled end of December 2XP event for Battlefield 4 premium members until further notice. A banner on the game’s forums on Battlelog reads: "The end of December 2XP event for premium members has been postponed and will be run at a later date. Stay tuned…

Cute animé characters and battles against monsters in a fantasy realm feature heavily in this trailer, as is to be expected from a fantasy MMO featuring anime characters. Aura Kingdom is a free-to-play title that Aeria Games claims is one of the "largest F2P" communities. What do you think? Will…

Ruffian Games, developer behind the 3rd-person open-world action game Crackdown are working on a new action-adventure title using Epic's Unreal Engine 4, according to a report by OnlySP. Some investigations on their part into the LinkedIn profiles of various employees  at Ruffian Games revealed that several members of staff include…

 It seems the Wii U can be re-designed to PC games according to recent work from a team at the Hacker's conference. The device was cracked and used to stream PC games. The group presented a demo of a Dolphin emulator from the PC onto the Wii U Gamepad and…

 According to Macroaxis, a financial website that does large amounts of number crunching in order to predict a companies security and future profitability, Sony has a 79% of going bankrupt within the next 2 years. Macroaxis states, “Based on latest financial disclosure Sony Corporation has Probability Of Bankruptcy of 78%. This…

Microsoft is giving Xbox gamers two decent titles with January's Games with Gold titles. Both Sleeping Dogs and Tomb Raider: Guardian of Light were widely praised by critics and players, making this a pretty good month to be an Xbox Live Gold subscriber. Sleeping Dogs will be available from January…

More details have been revealed on the free-to-play PlayStation 4 exclusive, Deep Down, in the latest issue of Japanese magazine Famitsu and translated by DualShockers. Deep Down’s procedurally generated dungeons will exist in a shared world, similar to Dark Souls. Whilst exploring the dungeons, players will come across virtual corpses…

After their worlds collide, the members of S.E.E.S and the Investigation Group have another mystery to solve. Featuring one story line, told from two different angles, this 3DS exclusive seems like a cross-overm ade in heaven for Persona fans. Those outside of Japan will have a while to wait however,…

Cited as one of the most-popular public-backed video games, Mighty No. 9 is the game from the creator of Mega Man that fans of the series have been waiting for. They have certainly listened to the voices of their audience, and true to the promise made in the KickStarter campaign,…

2014 will prove to be an interesting time for Capcom in the west, with the release of their Ace Attorney and Professor Layton crossover due at the end of March. Not content with resting on their laurels, the company have revealed in an interview that Phoenix Wright and his legal…

Tecmo Koei’s game Samurai Warriors 4 may be seeing a western release, the game’s producer Hisashi Koinuma revealed over Twitter. The title, known as Sengoku Musou 4 in Japan, is the latest installation in the series and is expected to launch in the country on March 20 for PlayStation 3…

If you are saving up your Club Nintendo Coins and you happen to have Pokémon X and Y then you will have another reason to get Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter since, according to this image from Club Nintendo, you will get 15 Coins for both of the applications when you purchase…

Nintendo have recently tweeted that the Nintendo eShop is now working on all of Nintendo's systems: While this is good news for Nintendo fans, there is still no Pokémon Bank and Transporter available with Nintendo only stating that they will share more information about their launch as soon as possible.…

Free-to-play style energy systems are controversial at the best of times, so when they are implemented badly, people really get mad. This was the case for Disney's Where's My Water 2, which held players back with an energy mechanic that either left you waiting, or buying your way to swift…

Youtube Let's Player personality m00sicianEN has posted an extremely long video of the recent HD remake of Final Fantasy X. Seeing as both NA and the EU territories have to wait until March next year to play it ourselves, this two hour long experience is a perfect introduction for those…

Nintendo had scheduled a New Year sale for the Japanese market on January 1st and January 2nd, promising up to 30% off games. However, due to problems currently affecting the marketplace, the publisher decided to postpone the sale. Currently there hasn’t been a re-scheduled date for the sale with Nintendo…

Gaming for Good, the charity organization that raises money for Save the Children has raised over $10 million for the cause. The company offered dozens of downloadable PC games that could be purchased using points earned through donation. The titles came from indie studios and major publishers including Square Enix,…

nDreams, a UK developer who previously worked on content for Sony's Home app on PS3, has confirmed that they're currently developing a PS4-exclusive title, according to a report by electronictheatre. The company's CEO Patrick O' Luanaigh, writes of the news in an open letter: “I’m delighted to be able to…