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'My hope is the industry can police itself and we avoid regulation or intervention from external agencies,' says Matt Shea

Close to 50 leading studios, universities, service firms and more heading to October 2nd conference

Apple’s latest handset has been approved for sale in China, after government concerns that the iPhone would allow US agencies to track user data were quashed. The iPhone 6 will hit Chinese shelves on October 17th, almost an entire month after the rest of the world. Apple managed to convince …

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare could sell up to 15 per cent fewer copies than its predecessor Call of Duty: Ghosts, one analyst has predicted. That would equate to around 17m sales in calendar Q4. Cinemablend reports that Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia believes that gamers might be sceptical of …

Total investment in San Francisco firm stands at $105m

A new EU report has stated that tax deals struck between Apple and Ireland are illegal. The deals, inked in 1991 and 2007 between the tech firm and the country’s government, were examined as part of an investigation by the European Comission’s anti-trust authority into the wider question of unlawful …

Aardvark Swift's Grads In Games tour kicks off October 20th

EA shooter Battlefield: Hardline is going to work at launch – that’s the promise of Visceral Games’ creative director Ian Milham. "What you’re basically asking is, ‘Is your game going to work?’ and the answer is yes, it’s gonna work,” he told Game Revolution. We actually started on this more …

The worlds of Tolkien are a powerful force for games retailers, with a massive range of titles and merchandise based on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. MCVsets off on an unexpected journey Despite being originally published over six decades ago, The Lord of the Rings continues to …

New office to house 50 staff