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A former winner of Sony’s Gran Turismo Academy competition has been signed up as a driver for a real-life race team. The BBC reports that 22-year old Jann Mardenborough is joining Red Bull’s Arden Motorsport team to compete in the 2014 GP3 series – that’s just two notches below F1 …

A new trailer for Wolfenstein: The New Order has confirmed that a new Doom title IS in development. Those who pre-order Wolfenstein – which incidentally now has a May 23rd release date on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 – will get access to what is being called ‘Doom Beta’. …

Players have driven more than 653 million miles from 8m hours of gameplay

A glitch that had appeared in the UK TV ad for Xbox One at the end of last month has been revealed as a competition. A one-second disruption was apparently inserted into the ‘Invitation’ TV short in January. That one second contained 25 frames, in which were hidden a series …

Character boost enables those who pay to instantly reach level 90

The Shenmue trademark looks like it may no longer be the property of Sega. DualShockers has spotted an update to the Shenmue trademark page on the United States Patent and Trademark Office website that says the rights have been lost due to lack of use. Registration cancelled because registrant did …

Our series of profiles of leading games service and creative firms continues with InComm Europe. InComm Europe Sector: Monetisation and PaymentAddress: 1638 Parkway, Solent Business Park, Whiteley, Hampshire, PO15 7AHPhone number: 01489 556700 Key contacts:Laura Willavoys, Emerging Technologies – lwillavoys@incom-europe.com Simon Osgood, Senior Director Global Development – sosgood@incomm-europe.com Employees: 1,400+ …

Mojang has promised some significant new functionality for the mobile version of its hit title. Minecraft Pocket Edition will soon be updated to offer larger-scale worlds more in line with what users of the PC and console versions are accustomed to. We’re working on restructuring a lot of code to …

Graphics card maker Nvidia has unveiled the new GTX 750Ti – and the headline is it can outperform an Xbox One. Nvidia says that it now leads performance per watt revolution with Maxwell graphics architecture” thanks to both the 114.99 GTX 750Ti 2GB and 90 GTX 750 1GB. GameSpot put …

Intel Developer Blog: Softtalkblog pays tribute to the mobile phenomena that shone so brightly for a brief moment