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Nintendo’s increased fraternising with the indie community has been stepped up with confirmation of the first Amiibo based on an indie title. The game in question is Shovel Knight. It’s the first non-first party figure from the company to appear outside of the Smash Bros range. There are also some …

Surprise hit racing game Project CARS is getting its first lot of TV advertising this weekend – almost four months after launch. The game arrived on May 8th, and this post-launch advertising highlights a growing trend of games being promoted long after they first reached shelves. Although post-launch TV activity …

Future has promoted GamesMaster games editor Matt Gilman to editor. Gilman joined GamesMaster in 2012 as a staff writer, before being promoted to games editor in 2013. Prior to his role at the multi-format title, Gilman did freelance work for PocketGamer and Pocket Picks. His promotion to editor follows the …

Car football game achieves new milestone less than two months after launch

More than $75,000 given to 10 individuals for their work on UE learning resources

'I realised I had not shipped a game in seven years, I started to become anxious and depressed'

A particularly gory scene in new PS4 title Until Dawn has been omitted from the Japanese version of the game. The grizzly demise of the game’s cast is hardly a rare occurrence in the slash-flick spoof, but the death of Josh in particular has proved too much for Japanese authorities, …

Capcom has made two new hires. Brian Ayers joins as brand manager and is working on Street Fighter V. He has previously worked at Cake PR where his accounts included Xbox and EA. Prior to that he spent seven years at Konami, where he progressed all the way up to …

Full commercial launch set for Q1 2016

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