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Finnish studio to expand development team

EA has decided against releasing Dragon Age: Inquisition in India. "In order to avoid a breach of local content laws, EA has withdrawn Dragon Age: Inquisition from sale in India and the game is no longer available for pre-order,” the publisher told Kotaku. Customers who pre-ordered the game will be …

The president of Sony Computer Entertainment America has become the latest high-profile gaming exec to publically condemn GamerGate’s hate campaign. I think the industry has spoken with one voice on this one, through the ESA,” Jack Tretton’s successor Shawn Layden told VentureBeat. All of us are members of that trade …

The boss of Nintendo America has said that customers get more for their money with Wii U than they do with PS4 or Xbox One "The good news, for us, is that we’re presenting the best value right now in new home consoles," Reggie Fils-AIme told The Wall Street Journal, …

Macquarie University and The Ethics Centre are teaming up to discuss war and games with developers from Spec Ops: The Line and This War of Mine

Eight-week program invites developers across the globe to make games at countryside retreat

The ongoing war of wills between PlayStation and Xbox owners is as embittered and entrenched as any documented conflict throughout the course of human history. Well, that’s nonsense obviously, but a new profiling tool from market research firm YouGov has offered some bizarre data on the differences between typical PS3 …

One of the most active World of Warcraft communities on the internet was this weekend temporarily suspended as an act of protest. The top moderator of Reddit’s World of Warcraft subreddit on Saturday suspended the page entirely as a result of his prolonged struggle to long into the game since …

We’re just two days away from LGC 2014 so now’s your last chance to book your ticket for one of the video game industry’s key networking opportunities. LGC 2014 takes place on November 19th at One Wimpole Street at 9:00am. In attendance will be a number of big companies including …

Nintendo’s famed designer Shigeru Miyamoto has lashed out at the company’s rivals for what he sees as a slew of me-too products. What the other companies are doing makes business sense but it’s boring,” the developer told The Telegraph. The same games appear on every system. At Nintendo we want …