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Global PC sales fell at their fastest rate ever in 2013. That’s according to Gartner which says that global PC shipments for the period fell ten per cent compared to 2012 to 315.9m units, equalling the sales seen in 2009. For Q4 global PC shipments reached 82.6m units, down 6.9 …

We look at five jobs in games available in the UK game industry

IA Labs once tried to sue Nintendo over Wii Fit patents – patents which are now the proud property of Nintendo. Kotaku reports that the company three years ago failed in an effort to sue Nintendo and was as a result ordered to pay the platform holder’s court costs. It …

Team17 MD Debbie Bestwick shares tips on how indies can form a sustainable business after their first hit

Ubisoft’s critically applauded platformer Rayman Legends will arrives on PS4 and Xbox One earlier than expected. The publisher has confirmed that the game will now be available on February 21st, a week earlier than previously expected. This means it will no longer have the share the limelight with Square Enix’s …

Nintendo has revealed that combined eShop and retail sales of 3DS games hit 16m units in 2013. That represents a year-on-year increase of 45 per cent, Polygon reports. Furthermore, the combined lifetimes unit sales of 3DS, 3DS XL and 2DS have now hit 11.5m in the US. "Nintendo 3DS is …

The viability of a new free alternative to Nvidia’s new variable refresh rate tech G-Sync has been questioned by the PC hardware firm. Rival AMD took to CES this week to reveal FreeSync – a new technology that apes G-Sync’s ability to synchronise the refresh rates of a monitor and …

Having been released on the Apple App Store yesterday, Sega has now pulled Rhythm Thief & The Paris Caper from sale. An unexpected problem has been discovered in the version of Rhythm Thief that was available yesterday on the Apple App Store, so we have removed it temporarily from the …

Climax Studios’s Gary Welch discusses the key skills needed for his role in animation

2K Czech is set to close its Prague studio and will lay off a number of staff, the publisher has confirmed. As reported byEurogamer, some of the studio’s employees are being relocated to its Brno office. Ten "key" development staff from the Czech offices are also being transferred to the …