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The former chief financial officer of department chain Fraser is to take on the role of CFO at GAME Digital. Mark Gifford joined Fraser as director of finance in 2002, before moving to become CFO in 2007. Previously, he held senior finance positions at travel firm First Choice. He will …

Free-to-play collectible card game Hearthstone has registered 30m players, Blizzard has revealed. The company announced the news via its Twitter account earlier today: "BY THE POWER OF RAGNAROS, 30 million players have joined us by the hearth! Thanks for pulling up a chair!" Blizzard’s statement would seem to debunkYahoo editor …

Goat Simulator is primed to receive a zombie survival game mode with the release of the DayZ-inspired GoatZ DLC later this week. Tongue planted firmly in cheek, developer Coffee Stain Studios boasts that GoatZ is the only survival game on Steam that isn’t in Early Access.” Though the claim isn’t …

We’ve entered a new month, and Grand Theft Auto V still won’t loosen its grip of the number one spot on Steam’s top ten selling products chart. A hard-charging Star Wars Collection finished in the runner-up position for its debut, while last week’s runner-up Killing Floor slipped slightly to third. …

As for an apology. Ain’t gonna happen. To everyone that got overly offended. Good, thats what we were going for. Just wait for our next game we are working on, its gonna be way more offensive as this one.[sic]” That’s the message from the developer of a game called ‘Kill …

Last month, UK developer Creative Assembly proudly announced it has teamed up with Games Workshop to combine the worlds of Warhammer with its PC strategy series Total War. There were plenty of serious, business-related questions to ask about Total War: Warhammer and its prospects. But there was one question that …

Chosen games will be exhibited at Newcastle’s Life Science Centre for six months

Zen Pinball 2 and Pinball FX2 are to see their ranks bolstered with the addition of a table based on Valve’s Portal IP. Portal Pinball will be added to the games across a number of platforms on May 25th priced at 2.49. The mobile versions will cost 1.49. Aperture Laboratories …

Early bird rates only available until Wednesday, July 8th

A series of videos for getting the most out of your music and sounds on Unreal Engine