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Rift version to be available to all backers at no extra cost

Attendees at tonight’s GMAs once again get the chance to sing/bellow/destroy their favourite rock and pop songs in Bandaoke. The band-supported karaoke is supported by Insert Coin and is part of the post-awards celebrations. The Games Media Awards take place tonight, Thursday October 10th and return to Vinopolis, Bankside. Five-man …

F2P Summit: Cyberpsychologist Berni Good analyses the motivations behind in-game purchases

Microsoft has, as it does every year, announced three new Xbox 360 bundles for the upcoming holiday season, including a console-Kinect bundle with FIFA 14 thrown in for free. Starting 12th October, three Xbox 360 ‘festive bundles’ will be making their way to stores shelves across India. This Diwali, we …

A new report from Exponential Interactive paints a very different picture of the average Grand Theft Auto V player than you might expect. The data was sourced from the anonymous cookies from 2m UK internet users who have expressed an interest in Grand Theft Auto. This was then compared with …

Amid regularnews of hikes in game prices across the board in India, Anshu Mor,group head of Microsoft India’s interactive entertainment business, believes that reasonable game prices are vital for the Indian market. Despite the Dollar price increasing, we believe that the need in the Indian market is to have game …

Develop takes a first look at the new 2D features that come with Unity’s 4.3 update

Three new Wii U hardware bundles will be available at UK retail this Christmas. The Mario & Luigi Premium Pack arrives on November 8th and includes both New Super Mario Bros U and New Super Luigi U as a ‘2 in 1′ disc” along with a black Premium 32GB Wii …

Department store giant John Lewis has predicted a next-gen win for Xbox One. We are expecting more interest in the Xbox One,” head technology buyer at John Lewis Jonathan Marsh told TrustedReviews. We are stocking both the PS4 and the Xbox One but if we were to back one, we …

London-based Leyton Orient may be sitting top of League One, but that’s no thanks to EA’s FIFA 14 according to the club’s owners. Metro reports that Orient had won eight successive games at the beginning of the season right up until the release of FIFA 14, since which they have …