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MD David Banner tells us how the firm is putting Wales on the map

Battlefield 4, Grand Theft Auto Online, Final Fantasy XIV, SimCity, Half-Life 2, Diablo III – the list of online launch disasters is hardly a small one. But Bungie has said that it is already working on measures to ensure that Destiny is not added to any such list this September. …

Sports Interactive’s hugely successful Football Manager series has claimed another PC milestone. Football Manager 2014 has now broken the record for the most weeks spent at number one in the UK PC game chart, with 22 weeks at number one – 18 of those consecutively. The news comes as Sega’s …

PC gamers will have the option of significantly ramping up Grid Autosport’s visuals compared to the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. If you play on PC you’ll have access to the first piece of additional content the moment GRID Autosport launches; an HD texture pack that will increase the visual …

UK and Bulgarian offices affected by latest of studio's financial troubles

Continuing our round-up of this year's potential winners, we look at some of the great work developers have down with third-party brands in the last year

Developers, middleware technologies and content creators rally behind Unreal Engine 4

Anti-cheat system Punkbuster has incorrectly banned some innocent players of Battlefield 3. The third party software is designed to automatically identify players who are cheating and ban them automatically. As the software isn’t owned or operated by EA, overturning the bans is proving tricky. We are investigating an issue of …

Studio formed by former Zynga devs now working alongside Dance Central team

Tokyo-based indie Friend & Foe founded by Rui Guerreiro