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Channel 4 has revealed when Charlie Brooker’s new one-off video games special will be aired in the UK. It will be broadcast in the UK on Saturday November 30th at 9pm. That’s the day after PS4 arrives on these shores, incidentally. It will also be followed by the popular Indie …

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Chunk's Brian McHarg details what you can expect when developing cross-platform titles with HTML5

Deal frozen in legal jam, but expected to go through by next week

A number of fixes have been offered by Sony for new PS4 owners whose console has displayed the blinking blue light fault warning. An info page on the PS4 forums says that the warning can relate to a number of things such as TV compatibility, the console’s power supply or …

Nic Murfett, associate at law firm Harbottle & Lewis, describes the legal pitfalls that new studios need to avoid when setting up shop

It has not been a good weekend for Battlefield 4 fans. EA confirmed that the PC version of the game suffered a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack for much of the last 48 hours, preventing users from accessing the game’s online mode. The game’s Battlelog page carried the following …

Microcomputer reaches sales milestone sooner than expected

The 2013 edition of the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference was held in Pune over the weekend, with an attendance of over 1,000 industry professionals. While Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail was a last minute cancellation, talks from the likes of Year Walk and Device 6 co-creator Magnus Gordon” Gardebck more than made …

Administrators Moorfields Corporate Recovery has confirmed that 72 of Blockbuster’s 264 stores are to close. As a result 452 of the chain’s 2,000 strong workforce are to lose their jobs. "This has not been an easy decision to make and we acknowledge that, with Christmas on the horizon, this will …