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A survey of GameStop PowerUp Rewards members in the US has found that Grand Theft Auto V features on more Christmas lists this year than any other game. Rockstar’s next-gen re-release featured on 34 per cent of wish lists (for either giving or receiving) compared to Call of Duty: Advanced …

Depression Quest developer Zoe Quinn has completely dismissed any notion that the online #GamerGate hate campaign has even the remotest link to ethics in games journalism. It’s all based on utter stupidity,” she told The Guardian. Every single thing they’ve done has been doublespeak, everything they’ve done has been harmful …

107,638 unit sales weren’t enough to see Sega’s new Vita RPG Phantasy Star Nova knock Nintendo’s new Pokemon games from the top of the weekly Japanese charts. Famitsu sales data for the week ending November 30th show that the Top 10 welcomed a number of new titles including Kadokawa’s Vita …

The new Sinclair Spectrum Vega has already surpassed its 100,000 crowdfunding target to put the tiny computer in production. The Indiegogo campaign only began on Monday but the computer has already caught the public’s affection and sold each of its 1,000 limited edition First Edition units. The 100 system,launched by …

TIGA calls for export tax relief, while UKIE urges for continued investment in Skills Investment Fund

Studio working on episodic series for Xbox One

Sony’s virtual world PlayStation Home is wrongly regarded as a flop, one of its key developers has said. Despite its 38m downloads, with 19m active users and 3m monthly users at its peak, the service has already started to wind down and will be terminated at the end of March. …

Social media service Twitter is to make it easier to report abusive users and keep track of accounts you have blocked. Updates are already live with a few users but will roll out across the whole service in the coming weeks. In our continuing effort to make your Twitter experience …

Australian retailer Target has pulled Grand Theft Auto V from its shelves due to what it says are concerns about the game’s depictions of violence against women”. It says the move is in response to customer feedback. "We’ve been speaking to many customers over recent days about the game, and …

First Edition units sold out