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Online retailer Green Man Gaming is giving away a free game to everyone who votes in the Golden Joystick Awards. Voters just need to choose between downloadable PC games Sid Meier Civilization V and Mafia II (while stocks last, but we’ve been advised there is plenty of stock.. The move …

Intel offering a free hotel room and Ultrabooks to attendees and partners

Microsoft has said mouse and keyboard support remains a possibility for Xbox One. However, having always been keen to keep a distinct dividing line between its console (Xbox) and PC (Windows) offerings, the company has said that it’s certainly not something for the immediate future. "Certainly it’s possible, but we …

AMD’s top-of-the-range Radeon R9 290X looks like it’s getting a suitably top-of-the-range RRP in Europe. Videocardz.com has obtained a list of prices for AMD’s new graphics cards from MSI and they suggest that the 290X will be a very expensive bit of kit on this side of the Atlantic. The …

Qualifying Kindle Fire apps to receive promotional boost through 500,000 free mobile ad impressions

Part of Ken Kutaragi’s vision of the PS3 was for the console to ship without a dedicated graphics processor, with the now infamous Cell chip handling ALL the processing. The intention, IGN reports, was for PS3 to arrive alongside Xbox 360 in 2005. However, Kutarai and his team were eventually …

New initiative launching in 2015 designed to close tech skills gap and encourage children to pick up programming in schools

Develop meets the team on the frontier of wearable computing

There’s little doubt that Grand Theft Auto 5 will eventually arrive on PC, like most Rockstar games, but it hasn’t stopped one Intel executive from floating a conspiracy theory to explain the lack of a simultaneous PC release. Somebody paid a lot of money to make sure that title was …

The creative director of Ubisoft’s upcoming Watch Dogs reckons the Wii U version will be graphically superior to its current-gen counterparts. "I would say the Wii U version is pretty much in between what the current gen is and what the next gen is from a version standpoint," Jonathan Morin …