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It turns out everyone in the games industry is getting buckets of ice cold water thrown over their heads. The whole thing is designed to support ALS, in an effort to raise awareness of the motor neurone disease. And some cash, as well. Plenty of games industry folk have done …

A series of sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks across a number of games including including MMOs RuneScape and Eve Online have caused widespread server disruption for players. RuneScape developer Jagex posted on the game’s forum warning users not to participate in dangerous/high-risk content such as PvP or high level PvM”, …

EA has released a FIFA 15 video of a showdown between Liverpool and Manchester City. That same match – albeit at the Etihad Stadium as opposed to Anfield as depicted here – takes place this Monday. EA’s recreation sees the match finish 1-1 at full time, although Man City go …

Troubled microconsole Ouya is making a push for the Asian market through a new partnership with Xiaomi Inc, a Chinese smartphone manufactuer. Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman toldReutersthat while details are still being finalised, it’s likely that the device will get a dedicated channel on Xiami’s streaming boxes and smart TVs, …

Disruption affects a number of online games, also reported to include League of Legends and ArenaNet

EA is offering two days of free access to Titanfall on PC. It comes as part of the publisher’s Origin Game Time initiative. PC owners with Origin installed are able to download the game for free and, once loaded up for the first time, play it for nothing for 48 …

As it turns out, Call of Duty had a pretty good Gamescom after all. You may recall that yesterday we published a story about pre-order spikes during Gamescom. Amazon UK revealed to us the impact Gamescom had on its big games and the numbers surprised us a bit. It revealed …

It doesn’t look like Sony intends to release any motion controlled games in the near future, but PlayStation Move may yet have its day. The motion controller had by the end of 2012 sold in the region of 15m units – which isn’t bad considering PS3 sales stand at around …

EA has confirmed that the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of FIFA 15 will not include the Pro Clubs game mode. There are some things we couldn’t do for FIFA 15 on PS3 and Xbox 360, either based on the limitations of these consoles, or our time and resources,” EA …

Members of the games industry cycling from Gamescom in Cologne back to Brighton have raised over 4,500 for GamesAid. It took the team four days to reach Brighton, passing through the Netherlands, Belgium and France along the way. In total they rode 337 miles over 29 hours and thirty minutes …