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It has been alleged that controversial Chinese manufacturer Foxconn has been using forced labour as part of its PS4 manufacturing operation. GamesInAisa cites reports emerging in China claiming that thousands of students from an IT engineering program at the Xi’an Institute of Technology are being forced to work at Foxconn’s …

F2P Summit: Ionage developer Tim Wicksteed shares some mistakes he made when making his first free-to-play game

Grand Theft Auto V will be released on PC next year, according to a new report. Eurogamer claims to have word from multiple sources” that the game will be released some time in Q1 2014 – meaning between January and March. There’s certainly a hunger for a PC version, with …

F2P Summit: GamesBrief's Nicholas Lovell explores the differences between freemium games and traditional production

The likes of the GeForce Titan and GTX 780 may be about to have their price cut. DigiTimes reports that Nvidia is on the cusp of lowering the cost of many of its leading GPUs as a response to AMD’s new range of cards. It names the GTX 660, 650Ti …

Lenovo and HP ride the choppy waters with small growth in third quarter

The maker of Elite, Frontier, will support the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset in its upcoming Elite: Dangerous game. Frontier has also revealed that the Oculus Rift version of Elite: Dangerous will be available to of the title’s crowdfunding backers at no extra cost. We’ve been playing with the Oculus …

Namco Bandai’s Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is finally making its way to PC. Polygon has had it confirmed that Enslaved: Premium Edition will later this month be released on PC and PS3. Presumably the game’s only DLC expansion, Pigsy’s Perfect 10, will be included as part of the release. …

F2P Summit: Strong data insights crucial to understanding player behaviour

Ill-fated publisher THQ was once the target for a possible acquisition at the hands of EA, court documents have revealed. As spotted by Videogamer, the papers(as found by Polygon) relating to THQ’s now attempted suing of EA over its UFC rights purchase say that THQ first started exploring the possibility …