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It’s a brave new next-gen world out there, and with it comes a new era in higher-price trade-in prices. GameStop has revealed a part-exchange offer for the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Watch Dogs, but the retailer is asking for an unusually high 14.97 from interested punters. To take …

Lobbying open now for new ranking of the rising stars working in mobile content

Only one year left for games industry to make the most of Skills Investment Fund

Everyplay evangelist Oscar Clark discusses whether free-to-play is generating a golden age of game design

Don’t expect to see Sony and Microsoft dropping the price of PS3 and Xbox 360 this side of Christmas. That’s according to EA’s chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen, who as reported by GameSpot told the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, & Technology conference that: "At some point [Microsoft and Sony] will …

Those intending to use Microsoft’s new stereo headset with their Xbox One will have to go through the unusual process of updating their controller’s firmware. Fortunately it’s a relatively painless process that should take less than five minutes in total. The required software arrived last week alongside Xbox One’s second …

CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh discusses the many paths of finance at TIGA Games Summit 2014

When we got close to the end, we still could have shipped. That’s why it’s hard.” That’s the admission from Watch Dogs senior producer Dominic Guay, who has taken to the Ubiblog to explain the decision to delay the game from its previous next-gen launch November release date until May. …

Babel Media prides itself on ensuring that the games you ship are free of show-stopping bugs and breaks. It has been operating for more than 12 years and has built up an impressive list of clients in that time, including Sony Computer Entertainment, Ubisoft, Take-Two and Nintendo. Such is its …

Studio Ghibli RPG Ni No Kuni has joined the million sellers club on home consoles. Siliconera reports that global shipments of the Level 5 developed game have now passed 1.1m units worldwide. The title was published by Namco Bandai in Europe and the US and by its developer in Japan. …