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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 talks to nominee Simon Parkin about what the award would mean and the difficulties faced by …

There may be some sort of optional motion control element in the PS4 version of Grand Theft Auto V. GTAforums spotted the game’s pre-order page on the European PSN store which included the line "a PlayStation Move navigation controller or Wireless Controller will be required for motion control features". Also …

Ian Morris, editor of inclusive family-friendly games website Everybody Plays, explains the importance of knowing the age suitability of kids’ titles – and why next-gen isn’t for everyone yet What are you working on at the moment? At the moment, all hands are on deck building up our coverage for …

Develop speaks to the famous developer on his return, free-to-play and why being transparent about development is key

Chris Bond, senior staff writer and producer for Ginx TV, chats about the success of Videogame Nation and what’s next for the outlet Launched back in 2008, Ginx TV has managed to avoid the early death suffered by many of its video games TV channel rivals. In fact, the London-based …

Evolution has said that it is delaying the release of the free PS Plus edition of Driveclub as it struggles to get the servers for the paid game working correctly. We are seeing a lot of activity and new social behaviours right now, but unfortunately this is pushing the servers …

Intel Developer Blog: A new app on Google Play designed for programmers

Day For Night Games – the studio which emerged from the ashes of Irrational Games earlier this year – has brought its first project The Black Glove onto Kickstarter. The team is compromised of former Irrational staff, creators of the BioShock and BioShock Infinite series – though if the media …

Upcoming Wii U release Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker will launch in North America on December 5th, Nintendo of America has announced. The news was briefly mentioned by the firm among its Super Smash Bros announcements earlier today. The 3D puzzle-platformer is to be priced at $40 and will support select …

The open beta of Sony’s PlayStation Now streaming game service will be available on PlayStation TV when the microconsole launches later this month. The US PlayStation blog reveals both PlayStation TV and the PS Vita hardware its based on will carry PS Now’s beta version starting October 14th – the …