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Minecraft proves that indie games can sell consoles, says Xbox indie developer boss Chris Charla. Charla is in charge of Microsoft’s new indie programme ID@Xbox, unveiled at Gamescom to attract small studios to Xbox One. There has certainly been system sellers that have been indie games – Minecraft is a …

PS4 will be released in the Middle Eastern just before Christmas. IGN reports that the console will be released in the territory on December 13th, as revealed at the GAMES13 conference. It will retail for 1,699 United Arab Emirates Dirham. PS4 will be released in North America on November 15th …

The game courses at this East Midlands university are putting students through their paces

EA has canceled its annual collegiate American football title through at least next year. EA Sports’ Cam Weber confirmed the news in an EA blog post, stating that the publisher is evaluating our plan for the future of the franchise.” In related news, The New York Times reports that EA …

The console video game market is about to get a hell of a lot bigger. The Chinese government is reportedly on the verge of lifting its 13-year ban on the sale of video games consoles by opening up the market in Shanghai’s new free trade zone, The Verge reports. A …

Success brings with it an inevitable problem – envy. And in these days of the internet and social media, this can manifest in a hostility that can at times be pretty unrelenting for the biggest companies in gaming. Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg understands this, but also argues that it’s …

Candy Crush developer King has filed for an initial public offering in the US worth an estimated $5 billion, according to a report. The Telegraphsays the London firm has quietly submitted pre-IPO S1 documents for its flotation on the Nasdaq exchange, although no official announcement has yet been made. On …

New tech measures motion-to-photons latency at any point in the game pipeline

Over 133 new studios opened within the UK in the last 18 months. 80 per cent of these are working on games for Apple’s iOS platform, and over 70 for Google’s Android operating system. These are games built specifically for tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices. Vast install bases, open …

Phil Harrison has said that a digital-only future for the games industry is an inevitability. The general trend of the world is to be more digital and less physical,” Microsoft’s EMEA corporate VP Phil Harrison told Eurogamer. That is in our opinion an unstoppable force. Depending on where you live …