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Newcastle is the host of a new Ubisoft office, which opens today. Called the Consumer Relationship Centre, the department currently houses 75 workers and will by the end of 2015 employ over 100. The plan is to expand that to 200 in the future. The office, which will integrate consumer …

Fewer games than you think offer free playable female characters by default A 12 year-old has discovered that it costs gamers more money to play as female characters than male characters in the most popular iPhone games. The Washington Post has run an article by 12 year-old Madeline Messer in …

The clampdown on cross-region gifting in Steam appear to have been tightened further. Late last year a number of restrictions were put in place to limit users in countries where games are cheaper – such as Russia – from selling keys to consumers in countries such as the UK, where …

Mortal Kombat X will not arrive on last-gen consoles until the summer. Videogamer reports that the PS4, Xbox One and PC versions remain on track to arrive on April 14th. While NetherRealm is handling the PS4 and Xbox One releases, High Voltage is taking care of the PS3 and 360 …

The British Academy Games Awards were held last night, with big wins for several UK studios including Ustwo Games, Creative Assembly and Roll7. Ustwo Games were the big winners of the night, picking up two awards for its seminal mobile puzzle game Monument Valley. The title received best British Game …

Anaheim in California will once again be host to Blizzcon, which this year will take place in November. The Blizzard gathering will off on November 6th, with the first batch of tickets going on sale on April 15th – priced at a pretty hefty $199. Virtual tickets will be available …

Student studio Overly Kinetic named winners of this year's Ones To Watch award

Studio aims to expand team and portfolio

Monument Valley dev only studio to pick up more than one award

Mobile analytics firm App Annie has opened a new office in Singapore. The company said the move was due to the flourishing and fast-growing mobile market in India and Southeast Asia. It claimed the INSEA and ANZ regions were almost as large as China, Japan and South Korea combined in …