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Sony’s PS3 action title The Last of Us was the big winner at last night’s BAFTA Games Awards. The Naughty Dog game won five awards, including Game of the Year. Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 5 claimed three gongs, including best British Game. Creators Dan and Sam Houser also put in …

Kotaku UK will be launched by Future in a matter of weeks. The popular and controversial US website already attracts 1.1m UK users every month. Future says that adding the site to its portfolio automatically makes it the second biggest online games media firm in the UK with 3.3m monthly …

Don Bradman Cricket 14 won’t quite make its planned March release, but the good news is that the delay is a small one. Big Ant Studios’ promising cricket simulation will finally release on 3rdApril for PS3 and Xbox 360, and will be released in India through distributor Sunder Electronics. Sunder …

Sony will reveals its rumoured VR gaming headset at GDC next week and prototypes have already been sent out to developers, a new report claims. Edge cites an alleged third-party developer with a prototype of the device already in hand. The source claims Sony’s hardware is far superior” to the …

An unidentified Take-Two title suggested to be Mafia III will take place in Louisiana, according to a rumoured casting call by the publisher. Eurogamer reports on the document in question, which show a trio of character biographies that describe a title focused on underground crime and set in Louisiana. The …

Google has hired on former staff members and purchased assets from the now defunct Green Throttle Games development studio. The company confirmed the acquisition to PandoDaily, though declined to go into specifics on the deal. Green Throttle was founded by Guitar Hero vets Charles Huang, Matt Crowley, and Karl Townsend. …

The studio developing Watch Dogs didn’t want to reveal Watch Dogs way back at E3 2012. Speaking to Edge magazine, as reported by Videogamer, creative director Jonathan Morin said Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot was the mean pushing for the early reveal. "They forced us to go at E3 2012," Morin …

Nvidia has announced a new set of game bundles for Geforce GTX desktop graphics cards and Geforce-powered laptops. Starting today, buyers of Geforce GTX Titan, 780 Ti, 780, 770, 760, 690, 680, 670, 660 Ti and 660 cards will receive a download code for survival-horror game Daylight, which releases on …

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