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Anderson’s role on Green Man Gaming’s finance team combines two of her passions – games and numbers. It’s a love affair that began in her early years, as she split studying to be an account with working as a sales assistant in the video game store Future Zone on Saturdays. …

Around a third of GAME stores will be opening their doors at midnight tonight to sell Nintendo’s new 3DS and New 3DS XL. Furthermore, it has also detailed a workaround for those wanting to trade in their old hardware that helps to bypasses the somewhat awkward data transfer requirement that …

Nintendo titles Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal have so far sold just 490k units between them. Add to that declines in sales of both PC staple Football manager and both Wii U and 3DS titles, and Sega Sammy’s financials for the nine months ending December …

It may sound hard to believe given her now prominent position of the host of the One Life Left video games radio show, but Scantlebury’s career in games started as a joke. [Games journalist] Ste Curran wanted a female news reader for a few episodes of a radio show about …

Other speakers for March 26th event include Delinquent’s Dave Bishop and Secret Police’s Ric Moore

UK indie developer R8 Games first to use tool in upcoming racer Formula Fusion

Revolution 60 creator and game developer Brianna Wu has revealed that she has received 45 death threats online since the start of GamerGate. Most recently a man wearing a skull mask posted a video on YouTube detailing his plans to murder Wu. So real was the threat that the man …

MCV can today reveal that the UK video games market generated 3.944bn in consumer spending during 2014. The number is 13 per cent higher than 2013’s figure, when the UK market reached 3.48bn. This year’s data was calculated by MCV with trade body Ukie and a number of key data …

id Software co-founder to share his thoughts on best development practices and future of the tech

Money will be used to boost creative industries and generate jobs across games, TV, film and more