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Anita Sarkeesian and Riot Games' co-founders to receive special honours at this year’s GDC Awards

Third party app store provider Getjar has been acquired by Chinese firm Sungy Mobile. VentureBeat reports that the cash deal was worth $5.3m. Conditional share offers could see that value climb to over $50m. Sungy, which went public three months ago, is best known for its range of Go Android …

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UK developer Facepunch Studios has banned 4,621 players from its open-world survival game Rust using its own anti-cheat software, CheatPunch. The cheat detection tool started running during the weekend, kicking thousands of users from official servers and notifying them of permanent bans from the game. Developer Garry Newman said CheatPunch …

Listings for phones and tablets carrying the now-deleted Flappy Bird have been pulled from auction site eBay. The Guardian reports that users who had listed such items are being told that they violated the site’s T&C’s. Smartphones and tablets must be restored to factory settings before they are allowed to …

Studio takes action against hackers using in-house anti-cheat software CheatPunch

43 games from the last 12 months up for awards, including GTA V, Tearaway and Assassin’s Creed IV

We’re really going after PC” – that’s the message from Microsoft as it (once again) pledges itself to PC gaming. So we love PC,” Microsoft Studios partner creative director Ken Lobb told Rock Paper Shotgun. It’s obviously a source of huge revenue for Microsoft. The reality is that in years …

Earnings jump nine times 2012 levels

Microsoft’s Xbox Entertainment Studios is making a TV series about the life of rapper Nas. Deadline reports that the Electric City Entertainment produced show is called Street Dreams and is being written and directed by Jonathan Levine. It’s set in Long Island, New York and will last half an hour. …