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Fan-made FPS homage Timesplitters Rewind has appeared on the Concepts area of Steam Greenlight. Unlike ‘full-fat’ Greenlight, the Concepts section allows developers to obtain feedback and try and gather together a community before launching a full Greenlight campaign. Timesplitters Rewind was unearthed as an in-development PS4 fan project earlier this …

Members of the Silicon Spa cluster comment on the loss of their biggest studio

PC indie gaming operation impacted by Blitz closure. 'Likely purchasers' suggested

Milestone Interactive will distribute EA’s Xbox games in India going forward, the company announced today. Milestone already distributes the FIFA publisher’s PC and PlayStation games, and with the addition of Xbox, it now distributes all of EA’s retail products. We are proud to acknowledge that our business relationship of the …

British game industry looks to put affected devs back into employment

O2 customers who buy either an iPhone 5S or 5C won’t be able to connect to the operator’s 4G LTE network right away. That’s because of a technical issue that will require the input of Apple to resolve. And that’s not expected to happen straight away. "The iPhone 5C and …

Forget smartphones, the economy or stock shortages – the biggest threat to the next generation of consoles could be Grand Theft Auto V. The latest issue of GameInformer (as reported by CVG) has a host of details about the upcoming GTA V expansion Grand Theft Auto online, chief of which …

Call of Duty: Ghosts has been installed as the favourite to claim the UK Christmas No.1 title by William Hill. It’s currently offering 6/4 on the game with FIFA 14 second at 2/1 and next week’s release Grand Theft Auto V in third at 4/1. There is no doubting that …

There’s something quite refreshing about the executives at Sony. They haven’t had their personalities media trained out of them. They will give you a straight answer (most of the time). They do appear nervous on stage in front of thousands of journalists. They are more than happy to mock their …

Intel Developer Blog recaps past Android OSs and what lies beyond their candy-covered names