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Misogyny is not common within Call of Duty’s online community, Sledgehammer’s co-founder and head of development Michael Condrey has said. "Like a lot of areas of society there are examples of people behaving poorly," he told the BBC. "I certainly wouldn’t characterise the community of fans I know and had …

14-week programme provides office space and mentoring support

Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Far Cry 4 and The Crew – those buying a new Nvidia graphics card this Q4 can take their pick. The hardware specialist is offering a free download of one of these games to anyone who picks up either a GeForce GTX 980, 970, 780 Ti, or …

Publishers of games that have an online component may be forced to hand them over to gamers if they cease to support them. Gamasutra reports that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed legal paper seeking six exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, one of which seeks exemptions for games …

ARM's Nizar Rhomdhane looks at the opportunities that will soon be in developers' hands

With the next-gen version of Grand Theft Auto V now just two weeks away, Rockstar has revealed a limited edition soundtrack SKU. The Music of Grand Theft Auto V includes 59 tracks and is limited to a production run of just 5,000 units. Both vinyl and CD versions are planned. …

Dragon Age: Inquisition will be available for subscribers to EA Access five days ahead of its general release. The game is released in the UK on November 21st but will be playable on Xbox One via EA Access from November 16th. As is the way with EA Access trials, however, …

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Mixamo's ambition to make character creation and animation available to all

Retailer GAME has over the weekend rewarded 8,000 customers with a big slice of free store credit. When GAME floated in the summer it also handed out what it calls Virtual loyalty Shares to 20,000 customers. Most received 100 worth, although 10 were given 1,000 of the virtual shares. 8,000 …