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Renegade Kid dev Jools Watsham questions Steam Greenlight voting and lack of feedback from Valve

EA is taking SimCity offline – deliberately this time. The game will go offline for around two hours from 9pm tonight in order for dozens of fixes to be applied for many of the issues that have been irking players since launch. Here are the changes in full, as posted …

STEM-focused program gives kids a taste of game development

Survival horror to be first title from Shinji Mikami's studio Tango Gameworks

Epic takes a look at the teams that gave it their all at the MSUL 2013 development contest

Minecraft won an MCV Award last night. The 360 version of the popular digital download game was named Sales Triumph. Minecraft on 360 has been a bestseller on Xbox, and likely the format’s best selling single-format game for the last 12 months. It has held the number one spot pretty …

Battlefield studio seeks student to investigate Oculus Rift for possible Frostbite integration

UK peripherals specialist Accessories4Technology has won the licensing rights to create products based on the Plants vs Zombies series. The PopCap-developed tower defence game has been released across almost every format in the last few years, and has been downloaded over 120m times worldwide. A4T is releasing a range of …

The UK’s leading supermarket Tesco has named Charlotte Harrington as its new home entertainment and books boss. She was until this month working as Tesco’s multi-channel general merchandise boss – a position she had held since October 2012. Prior to that Harrington worked as Tesco’s toys, nursey and sport category …

EA will air itslatest trailer for Battlefield 4 at tonight’s MCV Awards. The new Battlefield is due out later this year and promises to continue the success of 2011’s top-selling Battlefield 3. The 60 seconds trailer, also used for the game’s TV spot, features content from the 17-minute gameplay reveal …