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Esteemed Japanese weekly games magazine Famitsu has awarded Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V an esteemed 40/40 review rating. GTA V becomes the 22nd game to receive top marks from the mag, Polygon reports, and only the second one that was developed outside of Japan – the first being Bethesda’s The …

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Update: Watch Dogsgraphics technical director Sebastien Viard has said that the PC specs listed on Uplay aren’t accurate, and that the actual requirements, which will be revealed soon, are lower. Our sister site MCV UK has more details. Original story: The Uplay page for Watch Dogs has been updated with …

iLogos is a leading independent game development company in Europe, providing affordable first-class game production and co-production services since 2006, primarily for mobile, cross-platform, social and browser games. "Year by year our highly experienced team successfully completes projects of varying complexity and scope, with more than 300 projects completed to …

The Wii U state of emergency was declared a long time ago. A poor launch was followed by almost nine months of silence – no blockbuster titles, no huge marketing push. Pikmin 3 in July inspired a flicker of activity, but that was about it. Asda and Morrisons dropped the …

In an effort to broaden the portfolio of content available on the Xbox Live Marketplace in India, Microsoft is set to introduce localised entertainment content. Microsoft has been pushing the entertainment features of the Xbox One heavily, and while the next-gen Xbox won’t be arriving in India until next year, …

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Independent retailer Green Man Gaming has been named as headline sponsor at this year’s Golden Joystick Awards. This year’s event – which is the 31st, incidentally, and will hand out 15 awards – takes place on October 25th at London’s Westminster Park Plaza. "It is a privilege for Green Man …

Social gaming powerhouse Gree has revealed plans to offload 11 per cent of its 1,762-person strong global workforce. A translation from social games consultant Serkan Toto revealed that the company is to offer 200 voluntary redundancies, with applications being accepted between October 9th-28th. These losses will be in addition to …

Ideas are already in the pipeline for Grand Theft Auto VI, the president of developer Rockstar North has said. We’ve got about 45 years worth of ideas we want to do,” Leslie Benzies told Develop in the first part of its Inside Rockstar North series. We don’t know what GTA …