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The UK games industry will have to wait a bit longer.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is all set for release this coming week on Blu Ray and DVD and to celebrate the occasion toy  maker The Bridge Direct will be giving away a dragon’s hoard of Hobbit goodies.

Classic, new, and indie online gaming retailer GOG.com just kicked off a pretty nice promotion offering 5 select games for 80% off the usual price.

With the Kickstarter for Wasteland successfully completed, developer inXile has moved on to a revival of their classic RPG Torment.

Gears of War creator Epic Games says there’s still more left in the Xbox 360’s tank in what’s largely expected to be the console’s last year as Micosoft’s flagship.

Studio Ghibli, arguably one of the world’s most consistently successful and beloved animation houses, have announced that they are releasing not one, but two features in 2013!

No, not Mad Magazine- MAD as in Joe Madureira.

Nintendo is set to debut a few big name titles in playable form at the annual expo and give players a chance to get some hands on time with the company’s big releases of 2013.

Rumors surfaced this morning that, not only will publisher EA not be moving forward with a planned fourth entry in the Dead Space series, but that the entire franchise is effectively dead in the water.

Who better to talk about how to put the game in the hands of gamers than the man in charge of marketing and sales? I had the chance to talk to Jeff Spears, VP of Marketing and Sales at Mobile Deluxe, creators of Jewel Quest.

Writing the Warriors of Gears of War: Judgement is the title of the newest episode of The Creator’s Project Kill Screen series. Guess what? Writing for games is not all that easy- or controlled.

EA makes a move to surely stir a hornet’s nest.

Marvel Comics released another teaser to follow up their Marvel #1 news from yesterday with Count on Marvel. This one’s even more cryptic than the last, but clues abound if you look close enough…

Tune in at 6pm eastern time and check out tonight’s PlayStation Meeting 2013 after the jump.

Are you in Universal City, CA? How about Colonia Centro Mexico or Buenos Aires? If you are, wanna meet and greet with some of Platinum Games and Kojima Productions best?

Well, after the long wait for Sega’s Aliens: Colonial Marines, today’s scores have been well below average shall we say? With that, an ‘ex-member of (developer) Gearbox’ has been discovered to have said that the development was a “train-wreck”.