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Members of games industry charity GamesAid can now put forward organisations for possible support this year. This process opened on Monday August 4th, and will close on Monday August 18th. Any member of the charity may put an organisation forward. Charities put forward should focus on helping disadvantaged or disabled …

Crysis developers Crytek are still in control of cult retro shooting Ip Timesplitters. Deep Silver acquired the Homefront IP from Crytek last week and opened a new UK developer called Dambuster Studios and plans to continue work on the recently announced Homefront: The Revolution. The team from Crytek UK, the …

Conference aimed at both women and men, takes place in London on September 10th

Renowned institute signs on as Event Partner for first conference from the Develop team

Fund launches next week, with minimum investment of £25,000

GAME is to host in-store hands-on sessions with Diablo III: Reaper of Souls – Ultimate Evil Edition. The latest version of Blizzard’s gothic RPG introduces the game and its Reaper of Souls expansion pack to current gen consoles, as well as providing last-gen console owners with access to the expansion …

Deep Silver deal was only for Homefront IP and Crytek UK staff

A digital board game service is coming to PS4 and Xbox One via a partnership between Hasbro and Ubisoft. The Hasbro Game Channel will launch with Risk, Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit this autumn. Ubisoft says that the games will also be available to download individually” on PS3 and Xbox 360, …

App Store creator claims credit for half a million jobs in Europe

There is general unrest across the games steaming community this morning following Twitch’s sudden introduction of an audio copyright detecting tech. The decision mirrors similar moves made by YouTube last year – and yes, that’s the YouTube rumoured to be on the verge of a $1bn acquisition of the company. …