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The early bird deadline for London Games Conference is fast approaching – you have until tomorrow night to get tickets for just 199 each. London Games Conference is this year a full-day conference dedicated to games marketing and reaching new customers. We have speakers from Buzzfeed, Ubisoft, Gamer Network, PlayStation, …

Pre-owned games are now available on the shelves of 1,700 of Walmart’s 4,800 US outlets. Bloomberg reports that the move, seemingly designed to face off directly with market leader GameStop, will see typical stores offer between 40 and 100 pre-owned titles at any one time. GameStop, however, claims not to …

Rockstar has outlined the extras that will be offered to those who port their Grand Theft Auto Online progress from PS3 and Xbox 360 to the upcoming next-gen version. The headline extra is the Murder Mystery story mode addition, starring Michael, which upon completion rewards players with two Noir filters …

Fresh wave of Mali products designed to improve efficiency on smart devices

MCV’s 30 Under 30 returns next month. Once again, we’re calling for publishers, retailers, media and those working in the support industries to nominate their peers, colleagues, superiors or themselves for a place on our definitive round-up of the 30 most ambitious, most accomplished young men and women in the …

In June last year, GfK Chart-Track announced that the Xbox 360 had overtaken Nintendo’s Wii to become the UK’s best-selling home console for that generation. With almost nine million units sold, the machine is second only to the monolithic PS2 in terms of home console sales in the UK. Launched …

The space race has returned. More than 20 years after seminal franchises like Elite, Wing Commander and Star Wars: TIE Fighter set the bar for space simulation gaming, those that helped the genre first blast off are returning to making out-of-this-world games. Chief among them are David Braben, creator of …

The producer of upcoming PS4 exclusive Bloodborne has said that the decision to target 30fps was a specific and deliberate design goal. Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Studio’s Masaaki Yamagiwa told PlayStationLifeStyle that while SCEJ and From Software haven’t made an official announcement” regarding Bloodborne’s tech specs they will probably go …

53.6 per cent of RPG players are now women, new research from SuperData has discovered. Females also claim 57.8 per cent of the mobile gaming market and 50.2 per cent of the PC market, Joystiq reports. Men, on the other hand, account for 66 per cent of both MMO and …

Card battler Hearthstone is now several thousand users lighter after Blizzard embarked on a bot-bashing spree. We’ve recently banned several thousand Hearthstone accounts that were associated with the use of third-party programs that automate gameplay, otherwise known as ‘bots’,” the developer said. These accounts will be banned until 2015. As …