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Engine creator to share the “State of Unreal” on Wednesday, March 16th

Pictures from last night’s 2016 MCV Awards are now available to view online. Whether you were unable to attend and want to see your industry colleagues dressed up in all their splendour, or you were in attendance and want a reminder of how last night went, a full album of …

Future has announced a pair of senior promotions within the GamesRadar global editorial team. Susan Arendt has been named as US executive editor. She joined the site as managing editor from Joystiq a year ago. Meanwhile, commissioning editor Matt Elliot joins the global senior editorial team as senior commissioning editor. …

Epic founder Tim Sweeney has severely criticised what he sees at Microsoft’s attempt to take control of the PC games market via its new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) standard. Windows 10 apps and games – including the upcoming Quantum Break and Forza 6: Apex, and recent release Gears of War …

‘If Microsoft does not commit to opening PC UWP up, then it can, should, must and will die,’ writes Tim Sweeney

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Metroid Prime: Federation Force is perhaps the most ill-received Nintendo game of all time, but the company is having another stab at selling it to you. The games last year became the figurehead of what was a very hostile reaction to Nintendo’s pretty threadbare E3 showing. This was acknowledged by …

Jaime Griesemer and Marty O’Donnell predict that indies and triple-A outlets alike will adopt a freelance production cycle similar to movie firms

Nintendo has confirmed the long-awaited arrival of SNES games on the 3DS Virtual Console. There’s a catch though – the downloads will only be available to those with the latest generation New 3DS and New 3DS XL. There’s no cross-buy support, either, so even if you’ve already purchased the games …

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