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Worms creator bests Bossa, Future Games of London and more in developer competition

Developer opens up late-game stages for players to experience before it goes offline for good

CFO to replace current chief exec Seungwoo Choi by end of March

Valve working to improve discoverability on its digital store with user-created tags

UK publishing outfit Future suffers shrinking audience numbers across its gaming brands. The latest figures from publishing watchdog ABC reveal Edge’s digital edition saw the biggest growth of Future’s brands as its circulation rose by 68.7 per cent year-on-year for the period ending December 2013. Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox: …

Up to £1,500 available to UK games businesses that wish to attend May event

PC GAMING WEEK: It offers the most powerful single graphics card (GPU) in the world and its x86 chips can be found in both PS4 and Xbox One. It’s hard to remember things ever being better for AMD. No position is ever unassailable,” AMD’s head of technical communications for gaming …

PC GAMING WEEK:Choosing a console pretty much boils down to three things – price, games and brand. Choosing a graphics card is far trickier. With RRPs ranging from 50 to 1,000, price obviously plays a part. Games? Less so, unless there’s a partnership that offers a fancy graphical effect that’s …

Smartphone sales in India grew at 166.8% in 2013, making it the fastest growing market in the world, research firm Gartner has reported. Worldwide smartphone sales grew to 968 million units last year, an increase of 42.3% over 2012, with the most robust growth coming from developing regions, such as …

Two of THQ’s former IPs are to be subject of bundled re-releases on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. Nordic has listings for The Darksiders Collection on all three formats which, as you may expect, includes both Darksiders and Darksiders 2. The consoles SKUs also include the relevant Season Passes while …