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A group from the UK games industry has today established Dev Union, which hopes to encourage debate around the establishment of a UK trade union for those in the games industry. The proposed trade union would be called the UK Video Game Workers Association. "The Idea of a Union was …

Dev Union movement to encourage debate on addressing fair treatment of staff in development and publishing

A new free-to-play title from Codemasters has been released on iTunes. It’s called Boom! Tanks and features a range of iconic classic and contemporary tanks including the American M1 Abrams, Russian T-80U and British Challenger”. There are lots of personalisation options and of course an in-game currency that is used …

Sports Interactive has confirmed the PC, Mac and Linux release date for Football Manager 2014. The game will be released on Thursday October 31st. I get so many requests for the release date on Twitter, but we’ll only ever announce a date when we’re sure we’re going to hit it,” …

The URL Xbone.com is now the property of Microsoft. Fusible reports that the Xbox One platform holder recently acquired the domain. ‘Xbone’ has amongst some circles become the go-to nickname for Microsoft’s upcoming machine. The news comes after Microsoft’s community man Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hyrb recently admitted on NeoGaf that …

Remember the days when getting hold of a game early was as easy as popping down to your local indie? These are not those days. Unless you’re Spanish. A report on the Spanish version of Gamereactor reckons that a number of chains have put the game on sale today. The …

Warner Bros has announced a new Harry Potter film and video game series. It’s called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and is based on a Hogwarts textbook of the same name. The screenplay for the film is to be written by JK Rowling herself. Said movie will be …

Sony’s PS4 enjoys what is being described as a significant” and obvious” performance advantage over Xbox One. That’s according to unnamed multiple high-level game development sources” sourced by Edge. The site claims that memory read speeds are 40-50 per cent faster on PS4 and that its ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) …

Video game detrimental to the success of movie Star Trek Into Darkness, claims director

The UK’s mobile operators have announced their price plans for Apple’s new entry-level iPhone 5C. As always, there’s a vast array of options that see you paying anything from nothing to 600 up front as well as the monthly payment plan. EE is offering the 16GB version of the phone …