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A 17-year-old member of hacker group Lizard Squad has pleaded guilty to 23 charges, including swatting. This is as reported by local Canadian news publication Tri-city News – and spotted by Ars Technica. The teenager can’t be identified because of his age, but has admitted to crimes including extortion, public …

eSports betting platform Unikrn has allayed fears of corruption as it launches its UK division. Established by former-Microsoft exec Rahul Sood last November, the firm has partnered with Australian wagering outlet Tabcorp to allow UK consumers to watch and place bets on pro-gaming. There’s never been a better time to …

The CEO of Take-Two says the lack of digital data in the games market is misleading. Speaking in an exclusive interview with MCV, Strauss Zelnick said that a lot of the stories around the games sector are negative because the true value of the industry is not known. His comments …

Intel Developer Blog: Breaking the myth of what hackathons are really like

Mojang’s runaway success Minecraft continues to be incredibly popular on YouTube. Videos featuring the title were viewed 3,900m times, with 99 per cent of these being fan-made content. Minecraft videos formed 34 per cent of the Top 20 franchises. That’s according to a report released by research firm Newzoo and …

PC sci-fi strategy title Civilization Beyond Earth is to set sail on alien seas later this year with a new add-on. Rising Tide adds a host of aquatic-based gameplay, including the ability to construct floating bases on top of water and drill down into new resources below the ocean floor. …

Firm seeking feedback for innovative texture compression technique

NCsoft’s sci-fi MMO Wildstar could be in the cusp of abandoning subscription charges. A new listing for the game on SteamDB suggests that the game will be free-on-demand” whenever it eventually appears on Valve’s service. That’s the name used by all free-to-play games on Steam. The data is mined from …

Steam topped 9.5m concurrent users over the past weekend, setting yet another new record for Valve’s service. The digital distributor was busy as usual last Sunday, at one point surpassing the new milestone by a couple thousand individuals – 9,502,661 total according toGameSpot. Steam reached 9m concurrent usersless than two …

Indie developer Studio Wildcard has announced an open-world dinosaur survival game for next-gen consoles and PC. Called Ark: Survival Evolved, the game is built using Unreal Engine 4 and focuses around multiplayer co-op and a persistent ecosystem. Crafting, hunting, shelter building, tech developing and harvesting seem very much the order …