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The Global Creative Director at Blackberry has left the company. That, of course, was singer-songwriter Alicia Keys. Keys was hired by the firm in January of last year and throughout her ‘tenure’ has resided over a spectacular fall from grace for the smartphone firm that suffered a 56 per cent …

Sports Interactive’s Stuart Warren discusses the key skills needed for his role in QA

Get a job at the DmC: Devil May Cry developer

China’s game industry is still booming, a new report. The market last year produced revenues of 83.17bn yuan – that’s $13.75 billion in US currency, and represents a growth of 38 per cent year-over-year. Games in Asia translatedthe report from Gaming Site 17173and China’s GPC, which oversees and reports on …

Hot on the heels of its successful debut, Logitech is back with the second edition of its competitive LAN gaming event, Free2Play. Rs 1.5 lakh will be up for grabs in Free2Play #2, spread across five games – Counter-strike 1.6, Counter-strike: Global Offensive, DoTA 2, League of Legends, and Call …

How do we get players to play together in a manner that fits their schedules? This is a key logistical challenge a designer faces when building multiplayer games

Elite Systems has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a hardware homage to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The re-launch will actually be a Bluetooth keyboard, initially for iOS, in the form-factor of a 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum. 60,000 is being sought. When used in conjunction with the simultaneously released and separately …

Gaming peripherals maker Mad Catz has partnered with Origin Games to bring its range of products to India. Mad Catz’s selection of fight sticks, keyboards, and mice and mouse surfaces, as well as Saitek flight simulation controllers will be making their way to the Indian market. Here’s a list of …

Could 2014 be the year that streamed PS3 games arrive on PS4? A new Sony patent entitled ‘Suspending State of Cloud-Based Legacy Applications’ spotted by IGN that was filed in 2012 but published yesterday details the process of introducing new content” into classic games that are being streamed from the …

With a second movie on the way later this year, How To Train Your Dragon is the star of a new iOS and Facebook game. Be warned, however – this kids game is just the latest in a long line to feature some eye-watering prices for its in-app-purchases. Apps Playground …