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Cloud Imperium Games has for the first time shown off the first person shooter element of its in-development space epic Star Citizen. The video shows off four players securing a space station manned by hostiles. It all looks little ropey, but boss Chris Roberts promises that the CryEngine 3 based …

November has started, the Christmas toys are on shelves, and so now is the time to get excited for the MCV and Develop Games Industry Christmas Quiz 2014. The whole UK games industry is invited to come, of course, to the December 2nd event. This is our biggest quiz event …

Every Saturday evening for the last ten weeks has seen The Doctor and Clara fight all sort of nasties. There’s been the half-faced man, the Daleks, the Robots of Sherwood, evil wall-painting things, a mummy, spiders on the moon, trees… And then, within 24 hours, gamers are given the chance …

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said that Microsoft might have to reassess its Xbox One release schedule for next year as it has more content than it knows what to do with. "Looking at production schedules and how things are lining up, next fall is just crazy,” Spencer said on …

Blizzard’s recent decision to block accounts deemed to have been using Hearthstone bots has forced one company to close its doors. Those visiting the Crawlerbots website, who make Hearthstone bot Hearthcrawler and World of Warcraft bot Warcrawler, are now greeted with the following message: This is our last official announcement. …

PS4 and Xbox One consoles are flying off shelves, but the games are not following them. UK boxed games sales this week reached just 13.6m, a figure more suited to July, not the middle of October (GfK Chart-Track figures). For the month of October, UK boxed game sales hit 78m, …

The most bankable game studios in the world today, measured by retail sales data

71,582,030 minutes – that’s the length of an online ban being sent out to some players of Super Smash Bros on 3DS. A handful of Reddit users have received the – presumably erroneous – ban as punishment for what the platform holder has deemed to be overtly aggressive targeting of …

Sony's console enjoys best quarter since launch

Jenny Richards-Stewart has been named as the new CEO of Women in Games Jobs. Richards-Stewart has previously worked as CEO at the Gremlin Group and the chair of the board of governors at GamesAid. She also spent six years at the Paddington Academy. She said she fully supported the organisation’s …