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Beta begins later this year; participants to be chosen at random

IHS head of games Piers Harding-Rolls has predicted a dramatic swing to digital during the imminent console generation. The analyst believes that by 2017 a total of 34 per cent of all games spend on PS4 and Xbox One will be spent on digital games. By comparison, it says that …

Publisher Activision has praised retail for their ‘first class’ support of Call of Duty: Ghosts, as over 2,000 stores opened at midnight last week. Staff dressed up and stores – even supermarkets – were given a war-themed make over as the High Street prepared for what is traditionally the biggest …

PlayJam's set to pit Android system against PS4 and Xbox One

The biggest names in the games industry are heading to London this week, and there are only a few seats left

Middleware firm resumes all services and work on game engine following liquidation and months of uncertainty

The LGC delegate list is a who’s who of games publishing, development, retail, hardware, creative and services companies. Time’s running out to make sure you can join them. That includes companies like Applifier, Disney, Gamer Network, Gfk, Green Man Gaming, Sega, and many more. A list of delegate companies represented …

Valve adds fully customisable Team Fortress 2 models to animation tech

Irish games studio explains why rejection and self-doubt are not barriers for new developers

It’s looking unlikely that Microsoft will bring Xbox 360 backwards compatibility to Xbox One via its Cloud computing services. Sony has previously indicated that it will be doing exactly that to offer PS3 games on PS4, but Microsoft insists that existing online infrastructures simply aren’t up to the job. "It’s …