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Facebook, Buzzfeed, Twitch, PlayStation, Ubisoft, IGN and more will be sharing their expertise at next month’s London Games Conference. The event will discuss the marketing challenge: driving reach, engagement and conversation. London Games Conference returns on Wednesday November 19th – with a clutch of high profile brands involved. This year’s …

Independent game studio suffers staff cuts after work on Disney Infinity, The Elder Scrolls Online

Five years on from the release of the original, Zynga has updated one of the smartphone’s most successful properties. New Words With Friends brings with it a number of additions, chief of which is a solo-player mode for offline play that sees users squaring off against AI opponents. The game …

This year’s Games Media Awards on October 15th will see the games media vote on the night for their ‘Journalists’ Journalist’, from a shortlist of six industry standouts. Ahead of the big night, MCV chats to nominee Julia Hardy about the importance of treating the gaming industry with respect as …

Expanding services firm acquires India-based outsourcing company

Industry veteran Ian Livingstone wants kids to learn how to solve problems, not just pass exams

The PS4 could launch in China in just two months, according to a new report. The machine is without an official release date in the territory but Bloomberg says that Sony plans to start packaging the console from December with the intention of selling 200,000 machines annually. Documents detailing the …

Publisher moves to quell concerns about Assassin's Creed resolutions following misunderstood statement earlier this week

Satya Nadella has said that he got it wrong when arguing that women shouldn’t ask for a pay rise in the tech workplace. Readwrite reports that the Microsoft CEO told an audience at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing that: It’s not really about asking for a raise, …

Ubisoft has released a fourth statement that it hopes will put to bed a week’s worth of headlines concerning the display resolution of Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Let’s be clear up front – Ubisoft does not constrain its games,” senior communications manager Gary Steinman said. We would not limit a game’s …