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Gaming-for-charity drive Extra-Life 2014 broke previous fundraising efforts this past weekend, raising at least $5.5m for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Extra-Life’s annual charity effort revolves around a 24-hour gaming marathon, where teams and individual participants gather to livestream games and raise money for good causes. Games Industry reports the charity …

2K Sports’ mobile hockey game NHL 2K has launched for iOS and Android and is now available for purchase on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The title arrives for the mobile platforms after having missed its original release date earlier this month – though the Amazon Appstore version …

In Melbourne today, Game Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) 2014 opened with a keynote address by the Media Molecule studio director and some welcome news from Antony Reed, head of the Game Developers' Association of Australia

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 …