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A games-focused under-the-TV entertainment system will be launched by Amazon in 2014, a new report has claimed. VG247 claims to have word from multiple sources” that a $300 machine will be launched this year that offers the streaming and download of games, music, movies and TV content”. It will run …

Riot Games MMO being played by twice as many players compared to 2012

Former Epic developer and Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski has celebrated yesterday’s sale of the Gears of War IP to Microsoft. He also believes Rod Fergusson, another former Epic man who has also made the jump to Microsoft, is the right man for the brand’s new lease of life. …

Austin-based studio working with Vince Zampella's team to port next-gen blockbuster

Tool provider to expand San Francisco operations

Platform holder supposedly announcing new mobile initiative this Thursday

Ricardo Zacconi says company is just defending its rights, and regrets release of Pac-Avoid

Riccardo Zacconi, the CEO of King, has admitted that his company should never have released Pac-Avoid. Attention turned to the game in the wake of the Candy trademark dispute, with the accusation being that King knowingly cloned a game called Scamperghost that it had in 2009 been in negotiations to …

They can make the most successful entertainment product of all time. They can be responsible for the biggest console launch ever. They can even change the UK National Curriculum. Just don’t call them influential. The Sunday Times, in association with Debretts, revealed the 500 most influential Britons last weekend, yet …

Codemasters’ Peter Ward discusses the key skills needed for his role in sound design