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The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones developer Telltale Games has received significant investment” from film giant Lionsgate. The deal sees Lionsgate’s CEO Jon Feltheimer join Telltale’s board. The move is designed to extend the entertainment company’s properties into the video games sector and to allow for co-development of both …

The manufacturer of SteelBook products, Scanavo, will serve as Table Gift Partner for this year’s MCV Awards. We at Scanavo are excited to experience how well the SteelBook concept has been adopted by the new console era," said Mads Buch Nielsen, international area sales manager for the packaging specialist. "We …

Yes, that’s a quarter of a million pounds. What on earth could GAME and Techland possibly be offering that they think could entice an individual to pay 250,000 for a copy of Dying Light? To quote from the press release verbatim: Finally, for those looking to take Zombie protection to …

Nintendo has confirmed that it will release a selection of eight new cover plates for the New 3DS in early. April 2nd will see the release of designs featuring red and green Toad, Kirby, Pikachu, a number of alternative colours and a dot pattern. There are currently around a dozen …

We look at the franchises of the future that will be competing for glory next week

It has been revealed that the figurehead of GamerGate’s escalating extremism is a spoof character designed to mock the movement. In an interview with BuzzFeed, 20-year-old Jan Rankowski admits that the character ‘Jace Connors’, who shot to fame after crashing his car supposedly en route to attack Brianna Wu (the …

Amplitude Studios reveals how it used Unity to power its latest title

Jagex's Peter Lovell offers advice to anyone attending the Game Developers Conference for the first time

The free PlayStation Plus Edition of Evolution’s PS4 racer DriveClub has not been scrapped, Sony has claimed. Although currently we do not have an update regarding the timing for the launch of the PS Plus Edition, we are continually working on improving the server capacity to enable us to launch …

This year’s E3 will offer something a little different from the norm from Microsoft and Xbox, US marketing boss Aaron Greenberg has said. "Expect a lot of surprises," Greenberg told The Inner Circle Podcast, as reported by GameSpot. "We have some ideas to do some things different at E3 this …