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Despite EA Origin head David DeMartini recently pouring scorn on the hefty discounts available in Steam sales, EA has launched a digital sale of its own, with one EA game discounted by almost 90 per cent. More >

The latest addition to Gabe Newell's team at Half-Life and Portal developer Valve comes without any previous game industry experience (they last played Space Invaders in 1981, for a start). Writing on the Valve Software blog, Yanis Varoufakis - an academic economist - takes us through the moment Newell reached out with what he saw as a "strange email" last year. More >

Thatgamecompany is to become an independent, multiplatform studio after raising $5.5 million in funding. The Flower and Journey developer attracted the investment from Benchmark Capital and the deal will see the venture capital firm's general partner Mitch Lasky join thatgamecompany's board of directors. More >

Details of Limbo developer PlayDead's next game have been published on the Danish Film Institute's website, along with the below concept art. The DFI is contributing 1,000,000 krone to what's currently called Project 2, and reveals that the game "tells the story of a boy's struggle against evil forces trying to take over the world through questionable experiments on human bodies." More >

"The Senate would always overrule me when I wanted to declare war before the Vikings did," he writes. "This would delay my attack, and render my turn and plans useless. And of course, the Vikings would then break the ceasefire anyway." More >

Dwarf Fortress is a game in which carp can kill your entire clan, let alone the hellspawn which they may encounter as you have them mine their cities into the ground. All of which makes such a book an indispensable aid to new players. More >

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier maintained its UK all-formats chart domination for the third week in a row, even after a 48 per cent drop in sales compared to the prior week. More >