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The 34th edition of the Golden Joystick Awards will be open to the public for the first time ever. Starting today, balcony tickets are being sold to attend the ceremony, which is once again taking place at the Indig02 at London’s O2 Arena on November 18th. The tickets cost 10 …

John Broomhall kicks off our Audio Special by asking sound designers to question the most important part of their work

The clock is ticking on the online services for the Disney Infinity series. Having announced its abandonment of the franchise in May, Disney has now revealed a systematic timetable of server shutdowns that will see the series turned off on every format. Polygon reports that the first of these changes …

Kingdoms of Amalur creator accused of deceiving investors over $75 million loan after declaring bankruptcy in 2012

Project Intimate links a library of motions to ‘natural language words’

Developer previously announced publishing deal with Valve and reassured fans classification as ‘parody’ would avoid legal complications

Fireforge Games has declared bankruptcy three days after releasing its Ghostbusters spin-off title. Founded five years ago by former Blizzard dev Tim Campbell, the studio’s first (and, now, presumably last) full in-house release wasGhostbusters – although the studio worked on multiple MOBA projects with partners including Razer and Tencent. As …

Warner Bros’ latest LEGO title, The Force Awakens, has claimed its fifth consecutive No.1 since launch. In doing so, it is neck and neck with LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes as the LEGO title with the most consecutive weeks at the top of the UK charts. LEGO Batman 2 …

Outlet founder by former Blizzard dev reportedly suffers financial and legal woes over unreleased MOBA projects

The Vainglory Summer Season Championships will take place in Seattle and Cologne this September. Eight of the best North American Vainglory teams will head to Seattle to compete for the title of summer champions between September 2nd and 4th at the Amazon event center. The Battle in Seattle” event will …