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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 …

Creators clock in 28,208 hours on game's development

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 …

Trade body's research to create recommendations for East London schools and teacher

Those who sign up to Microsoft's Windows Developer Program for the Internet of Things will also get access to tools and services at no charge

Anthony Burch departing to work on Hulu series, but still involved in games development

Hotline Miami publisher allowing channel owners to keep all ad revenues for their videos

Devs discuss slashing the price of their game on release, and why it may be a tactic worth considering