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15 years ago, another woman on this Brit List – Lis Naylor – put Amanda Farr forward for a role at GT Interactive. The company was looking for a marketing manager for their back catalogue of products. Suffice to say, Farr got the job and she has since gone on …

Grand Theft Auto V took the top spot for the second straight week, and Dying Light earned two top ten finishes on this week’s Steam best sellers chart. Techland’s survival horror game finished in the runner-up spot, while its aforementioned ultimate edition grabbing seventh place. Sony’s H1Z1 continues to hang …

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Shelly Pearce has been one of the faces of Nintendo for over 16 years. She began as UK PR manager for THE Games – Nintendo’s UK distributor – in 1998, just after the launch of Goldeneye, and went on to handle the arrival of Pokmon in Britain. From there she …

As the end draws near for Club Nintendo, the American branch of the reward program has added a host of new options to its catalogue. Nintendo Life reports that new physical rewards include a Fierce Deity Link Jigsaw Puzzle and a Majora’s Mask 3D ‘messenger bag’. There are also over …

A new and faster Raspberry Pi 2 model has been made available for sale at the same price as the previous B+ version. The $35 micro-computer features a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU, which the organisation claims makes it six times more powerful than other models. As a result of …

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French developer Dontnod Entertainment has said that the gender of your main character is "quite irrelevant" when it comes to the quality and success of a game or its storyline. The comments emerged during aReddit Ask Me Anything, in which a user asked whether he should play Life Is Strange …

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