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Future Publishing has opened voting for this year’s Golden Joystick Awards – and it’s indie smash hit Hotline Miami that could clean up. The retro-style top down shooter has won nominations in six categories, including Game of the Year, Best Indie Game and Best Newcomer. It outperforms all other games, …
Read More »Dead Space 4? EA maintains faith in scary space IP
Dead Space 3 is unlikely to be the last game in the series, EA has suggested. Lower than expected sales of February’s release Dead Space 3 led to claims in March that Dead Space 4 had been cancelled. These claims were not denied by EA directly although one media outlet …
Read More »‘Next-gen’ Gamescom draws 340,000
Record numbers of consumers and press pile into the Koelnmesse for world's largest games show
Read More »MCV’s third free Gamescom daily is now live
The third MCV Gamescom daily magazine is available toread right now. It features more news from the show, covering the opening of the consumer days at Koelnmesse, Minecraft, PS4, the winner of UKIE’s game of the show, plus an interview with Deep Silver’s Menno Van der Bill on today’s release …
Read More »"Experimental" Ouya ad takes aim at traditional gaming
An ad that was posted on Ouya’s official YouTube channel has certainly succeeded in catching the attention. Called ‘Sixty Bucks For A Game’, the 30-second short has since been pulled from Ouya’s channel but can be seen below via a mirror. It sees a gamer react negatively to a session …
Read More »PS4 to launch in Europe on November 29th
Sony's next-gen console to land in North America on November 15th
Read More »Iosono reveals new audio tech Proximity
Crytek harnessing beta implementation of sound tech in Crysis 3
Read More »Indie Games Collective to host ‘How To Sessions’
September 6th debut for free-to-attend workshops for games makers
Read More »WildStar’s business model explained – Everything you need to know
Most MMOs fall into one of two camps: subscriptions or free-to-play. But NCsoft’s upcoming WildStar is attempting something a little different. The game comes with 30 days of game time. After that, players will have the option of paying for a monthly subscription or purchasing game time to top up. …
Read More »SOURCEBOOK: Testronic Labs profile
Our series of profiles of leading games service and creative firms continues with Testronic Labs. Testronic Laboratories Sector:Localisation, QA and TestingYear Established:1998Number of employees: 400+Address:Lyon House, 160-166 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1LBPhone:020 7042 1700 Key contacts:Becky Walker, Director of Games Business Development – becky.walker@testroniclabs.comCharles Goodall, Business Development Executive – …
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