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The often poisonous population of Reddit has led to the site’s owners launching a new portal that eradicates its central principle – user comments. Wired reports that Reddit will tomorrow launch Upvoted. It will still source its content from Reddit, and thus will offer a mix of what many of …

CEO Martin Wahlund on building BitSquid, selling it to Autodesk and making the move to self-publishing

The League of Legends World Championship finals are to be simulcast by the European Gaming League at London’s O2 arena at the end of this month. League’s climactic ending to this year’s season has already begun with the group stages in Paris, and is soon to head onto the quarter-finals …

Disney Interactive has officially ‘retired’ a huge number of iOS and Android games. By ‘retiring’ them’ it means affected titles will no longer receive content updates or support, and there will be no refunds for any in-game expenditure players may have invested over the years. Games of note include The …

Apple has again topped Interbrand’s Best Global Brands list, although gaming icon Nintendo has failed to feature for first time ever. The Wii U and 3DS platform holder just scraped into the 2014 listings in 100th place having featured 67th and 56th in the two previous years. Interbrand Japan CEO …

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Players can now pay to protect their base in newly-launched online mode

Thatgamecompany co-founder takes on new role at Android games team

Valve has announced that areas dedicated to Steam will be present in GAME stores in the UK this Christmas. The games firm says these will feature Steam hardware, such as the upcoming Stream Machines, Steam Link and Steam Controller, as well as digital cards. This hardware will be exclusive to …

Offering players the chance to pay real-world cash for in-game insurance is just about bonkers enough to feel absolutely fitting for a Metal Gear Solid game. Konami has announced that a game update released today (Tuesday October 6th) allows players to purchase an ‘FOB Insurance Service’. A player’s in-game Forward …