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Winger Gareth Bale will remain the cover star of FIFA 14, despite his 85.3m transfer from Tottenham to Real Madrid. Bale was unveiled as the player to stand alongside Lionel Messi on the front cover of UK version of FIFA 14 last month. The deal was between EA, Bale’s camp …

Creative Assembly's community manager Craig Laycock on why everyone should game jam

PlayJam's Android microconsole will hit store shelves at the end of the month

Deep Silver’s Saints Row IV has seen off plenty of opposition to remain this week’s UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 No.1. Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist hangs on to second, too, although last week’s No.3 – Disney Infinity – is knocked down one place by Square Enix MMO Final …

EA dubs launch 'most successful in history'

Publisher gets another 180 days to raise its stock price over $1

After Interact 2013 in Mumbai last month, distributor E-xpress Interactive will hold a trade marketing event for the north India region this month. Along the lines of Interact, the aim of Connect is to expose E-xpress’ 2013-14 line-up of games to retailers and other trade partners in the north India …

Microsoft recently abandoned its universal Microsoft Points system for Xbox Live in favour of local currencies. The result, at least for Indian Xbox Live users, is cheaper games. We compared prices for several games across Xbox Live’s Games on Demand service and the PlayStation Store and, to our surprise, most …

InMCV’s weekly round-up of the latest personnel news and hottest job opportunities, IGN names its new games editor and we look at the best positions available. IGN promotes Krupa to games editor The games and entertainment media giant has promoted Daniel Krupa to games editor. He joined IGN from university …

Nintendo is working hard on building an infrastructure to support independent developers on its 3DS and Wii U platforms, says Reggie Fils-Aime. Speaking toIGN, the Nintendo of America president said the firm, which in the past has been criticised for its indie support and lack of online focus, is spending …