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Just eight days remain until GamesAid’s Games on Song choir’s second concert. Over 30 members of the games industry have signed up to take part in the festive event, which takes place on Wednesday December 16th at 7:30pm. A mixture of traditional and Christmas carols will make up the set …

Eleven categories available for submission, awards to be held in March 2016

Super Early Bird discount expires on December 16th, 2015

Over $94m was spent on television games advertising for the month of November in America. This resulted in 32 gaming brands running 120 commercials on US TV. Of this huge figure, Activision was the biggest contributor, taking up 19.5 per cent of total spend, as reported by Venture Beat. This …

The intimidation of learning a new and complex game is something Capcom hopes it has eradicated with upcoming release Street Fighter V. The challenge, series developer Yoshinori Ono, is trying to achieve this while also staying true to popular older entries that championed complexity and depth. Looking at Street Fighter …

Intel Developer Blog: How cheating AI can improve your game

Desktop-quality reflections, soft shadows and automatic compression also among changes

Send in your submissions for our guide to development's hottest young talent by Wednesday, December 23rd

Full-priced game will be supported with post-launch heroes and maps

PlayStation seems to have had a pretty great Black Friday. Speaking to the Financial Times, PlayStation president Andrew House said that Black Friday 2015 was in fact the best-performing the company has seen to date. "We’ve just seen the most successful Black Friday in the company’s history," House said. "We …