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3,100 Walmart stores will from next week begin offering customers the chance to trade-in their games. Customers will only be eligible to receive store credit, not cash, and hardware trade-ins are not part of the program. It will be operated by CExchange, which also handles trade-ins at troubled retailer Radio …

Studio founder unable to secure new projects and funding

GDC 2014: Sales were ‘well beyond anything we had ever anticipated’ says Kenny Lee

Brain In a Jar is no more, founder and creative director Carl Dalton has confirmed. The UK studio, whose games included Indy Car Series, Indianapolis 500 Evolution, Golden Age of Racing and Kart Racer, had been operating for 15 years. Despite our best efforts we have been unable to secure …

Two Game4u stores will hold midnight launches for Infamous Second Son. Game4u stores at Mega Mall in Mumbai’s Oshiwara area and MBD Neopolis Mall in Ludhiana will sell the game at midnight on 21st March, with the store opening at 11:45 pm on the 20th. Those who pick up the …

GDC 2014: CEO Jens Begemann also wants to expand to Asia, starting with Japan

It really does look as if VR is going to be the next interactive tech battleground. The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to people familiar with the project”, Microsoft has joined the list of companies actively developing virtual reality hardware. The tech has allegedly been in development in conjunction …

The in-development Amazon games console isn’t a console at all, a new report has claimed. TechCrunch claims to have word from multiple sources familiar with the device” that Amazon’s console is in fact a Chromecast-like USB dongle that supports PC game streaming as well as Android game support. In fact, …

GDC 2014: Game engine available at no cost until March 21st

‘Rocketing costs of triple-A development led to a creative stagnation’ says Toby Gard