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Microsoft has finally released the Xbox One in China, and early reports are very positive. Having delayed the launch at the last minute earlier this month, the machine has finally hit the potentially lucrative Chinese region – and a Microsoft statement on A9VG (spotted by NeoGaf) appears to claim that …

Want to play a part in the outcome of the GMAs? Now’s your chance. Public voting has opened for one of our special awards. Gamers’ Choice is a chance for a single piece of outstanding games media work – whether that’s a written piece, video or podcast – named as …

'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 …