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Activision Blizzard has announced it expects to complete its stock buyout from Vivendi next week. The Delaware Supreme Court lifted the injunction regarding the transaction, just a few weeks after shareholders attempted to block it by seeking the preliminary court order – in addition to filing individual lawsuits against the …

Fresh voices and media pros alike took home key accolades at the Games Media Awards tonight. The journalist-voted prizes acknowledge the best new and established talent working in the UK games media. Dan Douglas was named Games Writer of The Year, winning for his piece "Play The Pain Away", which …

F2P Summit: Games GM Nick-Button Brown speaks frankly about depiction of women in FPS

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 …