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We’ve booked the host. The room. The food. The drink. And we’ve done the table plan. But there are four tickets left for the Games Media Awards. This Thursday night the winners of the journalist-voted Games Media Awards will be announced, and there’s a few places left for games industry …

The attempt to crowdfund a return for the James Pond IP has been scrapped. The project, fronted by one of the game’s original devs Chris Sorrell, was Kickstarted last month by rights holder Gameware Europe. However, with just 11 days to go it had raised just 16,000 of its 100,000 …

Another triple-A title has revealed some pretty hefty requirements for PC gamers. Although not in the same league as the frankly astronomical CPU needs named in the Watch Dogs spec sheet, Activision’s Call of Duty: Ghosts specs certainly contain a couple of notable highlights. The Minimum specs require a comparatively …

Tommo refuses to bow to SNK’s wishes, and fires back with claims of its own

The single player component of Battlefield 4 will feel quite different from what was offered in Battlefield 3, DICE has said. "We got a lot of feedback from the Battlefield 3 single player,” DICE creative director Lars Gustavsson told CVG. Based on what we intended to deliver the team did …

Secret Exit CEO Jani Kahrama looks at whether free-to-play and mobile are still viable options for indie developers

2003 Zelda revamp also faced challenges when it switched to widescreen

Jazwares’ new range of Minecraft toys is hitting stores this month. Action figures, plush and paper craft kits based on the wildly successful online game are available to pre-order now from supplier Character Options. The toy range starts with three-inch fully articulated action figures, priced at 7.99, with a choice …

One million devices manufactured in the UK

A revised version of the minimum and recommended specs for the PC version of Watch Dogs have been released by Ubisoft. And the fact is that they’re even more demanding than the apparently rubbished list that appeared last week. The Minimum specs require a quad core CPU – specifically either …