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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 …

Develop asks the leading studios why working on existing IP can be good for business and creativity

Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has indicated that Nintendo could be willing to reverse its long-term opposition to region locking. The game business has a history of taking a very long time with localization,” he told investors, as per a NeoGaf translation. [This is due to] among other things – having …

New chief exec keen to promote equality in sector

New hire takes up position left vacant by Andrew Sheppard

Gamers worldwide are as of today able to head out and buy Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. That might confuse you a little as the game doesn’t officially release until tomorrow (Tuesday November 4th), but Activision this year has chosen to release the Day Zero Edition a day earlier than …

FIFA 15 has remained top of the UK charts for a sixth week running, despite strong competition from Sunset Overdrive. EA’s football giant claimed a sixth consecutive weekly number one – the most chart-topping appearances of any title so far in 2014. The game’s sixth success also puts it halfway …

Issues with the latest PlayStation 4 firmware update has caused 2K Games and Turtle Rock Studios to postpone the platform’s planned alpha event for Evolve. A post on the upcoming game’s official site states that PS4’s 2.00 firmware update has caused unspecified issues for Turtle Rock – though GameSpot reports …