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Valve has widened the ability for players to be banned on Steam by granting developers the right to direct player bans directly. Playing games should be fun,” Valve said. In order to ensure the best possible online multiplayer experience, Valve allows developers to implement their own systems that detect and …

A number of classic video games can now be played directly via Twitter. This isn’t due to any functionality that the social media platform has introduced, The Guardian reports, but is instead as a result of The Internet Archive’s release of 2,600 MS-DOS games. These were actually designed to e …

The former Crytek UK and Free Radical boss tells us how he's using his 20-plus years of experience to help start-ups

Developers to match first $100,000 in donations

Steam firm to enforce bans at developer discretion

Tencent has acquired 14.6 per cent of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood developer Glu Mobile for $126 million. The firm has agreed to acquired 21 million shares at a price of $6 each. Head of Tencent’s Interactive Entertainment Group Steven Ma has also joined the US company’s board of directors as part …

Mastertronic CEO Andy Payne reflects on how to build a community behind your business and your games

As of today the price of free delivery on Amazon products has been increased. In July 2013 Amazon introduced a minimum 10 spend requirement to qualify for Super Saver Delivery, although a number of items such as books, DVDs and, crucially, games were exempt. These exemptions were then scrapped in …

Games media giant GameSpot has promoted Rob Crossley to UK editor. Crossley joined the firm as news editor in last September after a two-year stint as associate editor at CVG. He is GameSpot’s first UK editor since the departure of Guy Cocker in May 2013. Meanwhile, another CVG alumni – …

Subsystems and Objective-C compiler will help mobile devs bring their titles to new operating system