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The increasing influence of game critic Anita Sarkeesian has been demonstrated yet again with a striking cover on Bloomberg Businessweek. The image carries the slogan ‘Video Game Avenger: One woman’s crusade to vaporize gaming’s grossest trolls’ while the accompanying article is dubbed: ‘The Gaming Industry’s Greatest Adversary Is Just Getting …

New point release also includes x86 support for Android

The cult of Pokemon continues with news of a strong launch for the brand’s newest pair of games. Siliconera reports that Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire have between them sold 3.04m copies in Japan, the US and a handful of other territories in just three days. Famitsu revealed that …

Pokmon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire were the best-selling games in Japan this week, according to data provided by Famitsu. The remakes of 2003’s Ruby and Sapphire sold a combined total of 1.5 million units, making it one of the biggest launches of the year to date. These titles also …

Bandai Namco’s Dark Souls will ditch Games for Windows Live a little later than initially planned. The swap from GFWL to Steam was scheduled to take place this month but will now occur in December. We are working hard to finalize the process to move your Dark Souls: Prepare to …

Keith Andrew reports back from the long-running Bradford Animation Festival

The next game from Revolution 60 director Brianna Wu hopes to establish a new way to deliver interactive novels. The title is being developed for tablets and mobiles and will be visual, it will interactive, and it will allow the reader to decide where the story goes” Wu said, adding …

Concept by Guild Wars 2 writer Anna Megill, will see players writing story content

Tony Bourne, a long-term member of the UK games industry, has passed away. Bourne is best known for founding the SCEE’s QA department in Liverpool back in 1995 and also spent time working at US Gold, Eidos, Wise Monkey and Film Finances. His funeral will be held on Wednesday December …

Leading UK retailer GAME is taking the unusual step of opening over 300 of its stores at midnight on the night of Thursday November 27th for Black Friday. All stores will be opening early on the day itself, as well, with some even opening their doors as early as 5:00am. …