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The news last week that Future and Nintendo had decided to close Official Nintendo Magazine is a sad sign of the times. UK Nintendo magazines have come and gone over the years. The biggest casualty before now had been in 2012 when Nintendo Gamer – the successor to a long …

Halo: The Master Chief Collection creators 343 Industries have explained the reasoning behind its planned 20GB day one patch for the game. Eurogamer spotted that Halo franchise development director Frank O’Connor told Neogaf that it’s purely to avoid the need to ship the game on two discs and require users …

A new free-to-play online Doctor Who game from the BBC hopes to bring the art of basic computer programming to kids. The Doctor and the Dalek will be available on the CBBC website from Wednesday (October 22nd) and is voiced by the 12th Doctor himself Peter Capaldi. The story has …

ICO Partners' Thomas Bidaux and Tenshi Partners' Ed Daly explain what they look for in games businesses and how developers can improve their chances of receiving funding

The next title from Surgeon Simulator developer Bossa Studios is called I Am Bread. As the name suggests, it sees players assuming the role of a slice of bread. The physics-based control scheme allows for independent control of each corner allowing the bread to scale walls, manipulate objects and no …

The creator of controversial title Hatred has said that the only thing that differentiates his game from existing titles is the honesty of its approach. The game hit the headlines last week for its depiction of brutal violence, leading Epic Games to request the removal of the Unreal Engine logo …

This Q4 is a new season for racing games, with big titles like Forza Horizon 2, DriveClub, F1 2014 and The Crew hitting the grid. MCV buckles up and hits the gas The lights are green for a new convoy of racing games to hit retail this Q4 – and …

Devs can now help gamers invite nearby players to mulitplayer matches

New proposals aimed at tackling ‘cowards who are poisoning our national life’

It’s hard to interpret Sony’s most recent PSN flash sale as anything other than a shout of support for the women of the games industry. A number of games and films featuring females are currently on sale on Sony’s service, the timing of which presumes that the company intends it …