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Industry raises record funding, which will be split between five chosen charities

The voting is now open to select which charities will receive money raised by games industry charity GamesAid. The official amount of money has yet to be announced, but it will be the biggest year yet for GamesAid fundraising. Last year, the charity raise 260,000 for Action for Kids, Lifelites, …

Steering wheels, fight and flight sticks are potentially a good investment for retailers, with a slew of new releases supporting them. MCV looks at the best products on the market Peripherals continue to be a fantastic opportunity for retailers, with gaming accessories being worth 424m in 2013 – up one …

Epic Games dishes out more details on the Rivalry demo for mobile

UK studio Ninja Theory has been revealed as yet another studio contributing to Disney’s best-selling toy-and-game title Disney Infinity. The Cambridge-based dev, best known for its own IP Heavenly Sword, is one of several studios working on sequel Disney Infinity 2.0 and was brought in to help refine the combat …

Apple has for the first time commented on the apparent iCloud hack that led to this week’s nude celebrity photo leak. On Sunday night hundreds of pictures of celebrities such as The Hunger Games’ Jennifer Lawrence appeared online, with claims on 4chan saying that they were obtained via a hack …

It’s looking increasingly likely that Beyond: Two Souls will be the next PS3 game to be ported to PS4. Trophy tracking site Exophase has listed the awards associated with the as of yet announced PS4 SKU. Add that to the fact that in July two Swiss retailers – World of …

Developers from an assortment of studios have signed an open letter asking for the hostility that has dogged social media in recent weeks to stop. Names from companies including EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Guerrilla, Epic, Crystal Dynamics, Deep Silver, Double Fine, Lionhead, Bohemia, Blizzard, Infinity Ward, TellTale, Disney, PopCap, Harmonix, Traveller’s …

A definitive version of Undead Labs’ open world zombie game State of Decay will launch on Xbox One next year, publisher Microsoft has announced. A post on Xbox Wire reveals the new version will include the original game in 1080p, along with previously released DLC and some unspecified new content …

Rumours regarding a potential buyout of Take-Two by fellow publisher Activision had the former’s stock soaring at the conclusion of last week. Benzinga reports Take-Two shares were up 4.14 per cent at the end of Friday. Activision’s stock rose .21 per cent as well. The spur was brought on by …