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Call of Duty: Ghosts has been installed as the odds-on favourite to be this year’s UKIE GfK Chart-Track UK Christmas No.1. William Hill is offering 1/5 on the game, which arrives in the UK today but will be boosted by next-gen launches on Xbox One and PS4 on November 22nd …

Half-Life developer encouraging third-party partners to be content and platform-agnostic

CEO Paul Thelen shares casual games giant Big Fish Games' vision to become the world’s biggest free-to-play firm

Technology design to enable lag-free streaming and enhanced physics and AI processing

GAME has announced its marketing campaign for the Christmas period. Dubbed ‘The Epic Season of Gaming’, GAME hopes to target both gamers and gift buyers. The campaign started on November 4th and will run until December 22nd. The retailer will be running 20 and 30 second TV spots throughout this …

With World of Warplanes having taken off, Wargaming’s Sergei Ilushin tells Will Freeman how the game came to be

Special Angry Birds content to feature in GungHo's flagship IP

Studio says it will not be making SteamOS exclusive games. Valve’s designer Greg Coomer confirmed in an interview with IGN that the developer would not be making an exclusive killer app for SteamOS”. Coomer went on to state that such a practice would be against Valve’s philosophy and the studio …

Call of Duty: Ghosts arrived in the UK last night, and games turned out in force to get their hands on a copy at midnight. Over 300 GAME stores opened their doors for fans – one of which was GAME Stratford where Infinity Ward’s senior community manager Tina Palacios was …

The two latest competitors into what has turned out to be a very ‘heated’ battle in the PC graphics card market have at last been detailed. Firstly, Nvidia’s long-awaited GTX 780Ti has been specced by VideoCardz which shows that the card is not only a Titan-killer, but also the better …