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Indie development legend and millionaire Markus ‘Notch’ Persson is to be awarded with the Special Award at the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards on March 16th. The Swedish creator of Minecraft shot to fame through his first independent project – Minecraft. Initially released in beta form in 2009, the …

A potential bombshell could be coming from the direction of Valve HQ, followingreports last monththat the company would consider its own hardware. The PC developer and digital distribution giant is actually well beyond that point The Vergewagers. According to their sources, the company has been working on a hardware spec …

PC edition of the game requires Steam authentication, Gearbox reveals

Minecraft developer Mojang Specifications has acquired some new employees straight from its own community to help enhance server support for its massively popular sandbox title. The new hires were selected from the Minecraft community; specifically, the top four developers of Bukkit, a community-based group focused on Minecraft server implementation. [The …

Lawyers claim the Facebook Credits program breaks antitrust laws

EA has responded to reports that its digital distribution service Origin has been auto-adding games purchased from competitors such as Steam. A few of you noticed some of your older EA games showing up in your Origin My Games library over the past few weeks and I wanted to clear …

While Facebook grows, number of gamers remains stagnant

Game Closure rejects offers from Facebook, Zynga, Gree, and Motorola

Hubertz: Social networks are not the only route to success

NCsoft has revealed its MMO Aion: The Tower of Eternity will be flipping the switch to go free-to-play across Europe next Tuesday, February 28th. The changeswill take place in English, German and French at the same time on Tuesday; this on the heels of what’s being called a successful beta …