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A good reminder of what Kickstarter has contributed to the games industry can currently be found over on Steam. A dedicated Kickstarter page on Valve’s digital retail service lists over 125 games that are currently available to buy on Steam whose origins can be found on the crowdfunding platform. Big …

Video games are experimenting more and more with storytelling. Here are the developers that really toyed with the rules of narrative in the last year

This brand new award recognises the great work of composers based on a single track. Here are the tunes that made the cut:

Industry experts get together ahead of the big night

Many a Daily Mail headline would have you believe that violent games create violent people, but one new study suggests the opposite might be true. As reported by Polygon, a new research paper entitled ‘Being Bad in a Video Game Can Make Us More Morally Sensitive’ actually concludes that the …

Microsoft may be aiming high with its RRP for Xbox One in China. Kotaku reports that Zol.com claims that Microsoft has priced the machine at Y4,999 – that translates to about 470/$800. Note that while that represents only a 120/35 per cent mark-up on the UK price, it’s almost double …

Kickstarter-funded game bags publisher before campaign finishes

Former Xbox Live policy and enforcement director Stephen Toulouse has rejoined Microsoft. His new role is as the director of community engagement for Gears of War, pointing to a stepping up of activity for the Xbox IP in the near future. Toulouse quit Microsoft in February 2012, and has since …

Content creators now have the option of uploading video at 60fps to YouTube. For those to whom such things mean nothing, here’s an explanation: standard YouTube videos run at 24fps – as in, there are 24 individuals images shown every second – which is the same as standard DVD or …

Bungie says that Peter Dinklage’s voice performance in the Destiny alpha is being revised for the game’s actual release. Dinklage, best known for playing Tyrion Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones series, has been criticised for what is being called a lacklustre and phoned-in” voiceover performance for AI companion Ghost …