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Specialist games retailer Games The Shop has confirmed that it will hold a midnight launch for the PlayStation 4. Games The Shop will sell the console on the midnight of 6th January in five stores across Mumbai, Thane and Pune. The retailer also confirmed that PS4 launch titles Assassin’s Creed …

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

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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 …